[Ord. No. 11-1966, S1]
TAXICAB
Shall mean any automobile or motor car, commonly called taxi, engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire which is held out, announced or advertised to operate or run or which is operated or run over any of the streets within the borough and which particularly accepts and discharges such persons as may offer themselves for transportation from points or places to points or places within or without the borough.
DRIVER
Shall mean any person in whose name title to any taxicab is registered with the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles, or who appears in such records to be the conditional vendee or lessee thereof.
OPERATION OF A TAXICAB
Shall consist of transporting in such taxicab one or more persons for hire along any of the streets in this borough. Accepting a passenger to be transported for hire within this borough or from a point within this borough to a point outside of the borough limits or discharging a passenger transported for hire from a point within the borough limits shall be deemed to be operation of a taxicab within the meaning thereof. The operation of a taxicab in any of the above described manners by one other than the owner, shall be deemed operation by the owner thereof as well as by the person actually driving the taxicab. The transportation of any person other than the owner or driver in any motor vehicle bearing sign therein or thereon using the words "taxi," "taxicab," "cab" or "hack" shall be prima facie evidence of operation.
LICENSED
Shall mean licensed in accordance with this chapter unless otherwise stated.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S2]
No person shall operate any taxi cab within the borough unless both the taxicab and the driver there are licensed and conform to the provisions of this chapter.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S3, 4 & 5]
There are hereby established two classes of taxicab licenses to be known as "taxicab driver's license" and "taxicab owner's license" respectively.
a. 
A "taxicab driver's license" shall entitle the person named therein to operate within the borough any taxicab duly licensed hereunder until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable.
b. 
A "taxicab owner's license" shall entitle the taxicab therein described to be operated in the borough by a driver duly licensed hereunder until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S6]
Any license issued pursuant to the terms of this chapter shall expire midnight December 31 of the year in which it was issued unless sooner revoked or suspended.
[Ord. No. 2-1967, S1]
The total number of taxicab owner's licenses that may be issued and outstanding at any one time is hereby fixed at five.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S8]
a. 
All applications for the issuance or renewal of any license of either class shall be made to the borough council on forms adopted by the council and obtained from the borough clerk and designed to elicit information respecting the identification, responsibility and law-abiding habits of the applicant.
b. 
The borough clerk is hereby authorized to issue temporary taxicab driver's license pending the approval by the borough council of any application for a taxicab driver's license submitted in accordance with this chapter provided that the chief of police of the borough shall certify to the borough clerk, that after due investigation, the applicant is not ineligible under subsection 6-2.7.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S9]
Each applicant for a license of any class shall supply the information requested on the application in full and verify the correctness thereof by this oath or affirmation and thereafter file the completed application with the borough clerk together with the full amount of the proper fee hereinafter fixed therefor.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S10 & 11]
a. 
Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license shall file with his application two photographs each three and one-half inches in size, clearly depicting the facial features of the applicant, both of which photographs shall thereupon become the property of the borough and be retained with the application form unless the application is issued, in which event one of the photographs shall be permanently affixed to the license card in a space provided therein.
b. 
Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license shall be fingerprinted by the police department of the borough which fingerprints shall thereupon become the property of the borough and be retained with the application form.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S12, 13 & 14]
a. 
Each applicant for a taxicab owner's license shall have a regularly registered business office and shall therein have a telephone operating.
b. 
Every applicant for a taxicab owner's license shall submit the insurance policy or bond required by R.S. 48:16-3 and R.S. 48:16-4 covering the taxicab to be licensed, and shall execute and deliver to the borough clerk concurrently with the filing of the policy or bond aforesaid, a power of attorney, wherein and whereby the owner shall appoint the borough clerk his true and lawful attorney for the purpose of acknowledging service of any process out of a court of competent jurisdiction to be served against the insured by virtue of the indemnity granted under the insurance policy or bond filed in accordance with R.S. 48:16-5.
c. 
The borough clerk, upon filing of the required insurance policy or bond, shall issue a certificate in duplicate showing that the owner of the taxicab has complied with the terms of the Revised Statutes aforesaid, which certificates shall recite the name of the insurance company, the number and date of expiration of the policy or bond, a description of the taxicab insured thereunder and the registration number of the same. The duplicate certificates shall be filed with the department of motor vehicles before any such car is licensed as a taxicab. The original certificate shall be posted in a conspicuous place within the taxicab.
[Ord. No. 2-67; Ord. No. 4-82]
The annual fee for each taxicab driver's license hereafter issued or any renewal thereof shall be ten ($10.00) dollars for each year or portion thereof. The taxicab owner's license shall be seventy-five ($75.00) dollars for each taxicab for each year or a portion of a year for which the license is issued or renewed, and all such licenses shall be under the charge and control of the person applying therefor and he shall be responsible for the operation of all cars so licensed to him.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S16]
The borough council may, in its discretion refuse to renew or may, after notice and hearing revoke or suspend:
a. 
Any license of either class if the applicant or licensee has been once convicted of a crime in this or any other jurisdiction, or convicted of being a disorderly person or of a violation of Title 39, "Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation" of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey or who has been dishonorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States of America, or who violates any provision of this chapter, or has any judgment unsatisfied of record against him arising out of an automobile accident or who is an alien citizen of any nation between whom the United States of America a state of war exists, or who has made false answers in his application for such license or any renewal thereof, or who has failed to render reasonably prompt, safe and adequate taxicab service, or who has not complied fully with all requirements of this chapter, for such class of license.
b. 
Any taxicab driver's license if the licensee or applicant has in any degree contributed to any injury to person or damage to property arising out of negligent operation of a motor vehicle, or has any communicable or contagious disease.
c. 
Any taxicab owner's license if the motor vehicle licensed or to be licensed, by reason of unsafe or unsanitary conditions is dangerous to the safety or health of the occupants or others, or if the policy of insurance or bond or power of attorney required by R.S. 48:16-3, R.S. 4816-4 and R.S. 48:16-5 has not been furnished or kept in force, or if the owners fail to comply with any terms or conditions imposed by the borough council or any laws in this State.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S17 & 18]
a. 
Each applicant granted a taxicab driver's license shall be issued a license card in evidence thereof in a form approved by borough council and signed by the borough clerk in its behalf. Such license card shall at all times be prominently displayed and adequately protected in the interior of any taxicab operated by the licensee so that the face thereof shall be at all times in full view of and plainly legible to any passenger seated on the rear seat of such taxicab; and the license card shall at all times remain the property of the borough and on direction of the borough council shall at once be surrendered to the borough clerk.
b. 
No taxicab driver's license card other than that of the licensee actually operating the taxicab at the time shall be displayed therein.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S1]
The borough clerk shall at the time the council acts on any application pay the fees receptive therefor over to the borough treasurer.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S21]
Owners and drivers of taxicabs licensed out of the jurisdiction of this Borough may be allowed to enter their taxicabs in the Borough, but on specific call only, whether transporting a passenger within this Borough, or from a point within this Borough to a point outside the Borough limits or discharging a passenger transported from a point outside of the Borough limits to a point within the Borough limits, and the name of the passenger so calling shall be given by the owner or driver when requested by the Borough police or other lawful persons. Such taxicabs shall not be parked in this Borough nor shall the drivers thereof cruise on the streets of this Borough at any time for the purpose of soliciting passengers nor shall they, in the nighttime or other periods of darkness, when in this Borough, permit any advertising lights on the taxicab to remain unlighted, provided, however, that the same or similar substantial reciprocal rights are granted to the owners and drivers of taxicabs licensed in this Borough by the municipalities in which the aforesaid owners or drivers are licensed.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S22]
All vehicles herein required to be licensed, used or operated for the carrying of passengers within the scope of this ordinance shall be automobile sedans with a minimum of three doors, at least two of the doors shall be for the conclusive use of the passengers. The automobiles shall be at all times clean and in good repair.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S23]
a. 
Any dispute as to the fare shall be determined by the officer in charge of the police station at the time of the dispute.
b. 
Every driver of a taxicab shall when requested, give a passenger a receipt for the fare paid.
c. 
No person other than the licensed driver of the taxicab shall ride or sit in the compartment of the taxicab reserved for the driver, unless the passengers, for reasons of disability, cannot occupy the rear seat.
d. 
Every vehicle licensed hereunder shall have fastened in a conspicuous place therein a printed card showing the rates which shall be charged for transportation.
e. 
Every vehicle licensed hereunder shall have posted on both front doors or both rear doors of the vehicle, the rates for transportation in figures of not less than two and one-half inches in height and letters of not less than one inch in height.
[Ord. No. 6-75, S1 & 2]
Every applicant and possessor of a taxicab owner's license shall submit an insurance policy of automobile liability insurance of a company licensed to do business in the State of New Jersey in the amount of one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars per person and three hundred thousand ($300,000.00) dollars per accident for a bodily injury and fifty ($50.00) dollars for property damage. The policy of insurance as described in the preceding paragraph shall be delivered to the borough clerk and shall be furnished annually upon the renewal of the license.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
As used in this section:
a. 
LIMOUSINE – Shall mean and includes any automobile or motor car, with the capacity of five but less than ten passengers plus driver, engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, and which is hired by charter or for a particular contract, or by the day or hour or other fixed period, or to transport passengers to a specified place or places, or which charges a fare or price agreed upon in advance between the operator and the passenger; provided, however, that the term "limousine" shall not include taxicabs, hotel buses or buses employed solely in transporting school children or teachers or auto buses which are subject to the jurisdiction of the board of utility commissioners, or interstate auto buses required by Federal law or the rules of the board of public utility commissioners to carry insurance against loss from liability imposed by law on account of bodily injury or death.
b. 
NUMBER OF OWNERS LICENSES – Shall mean the total number of limousine owner's licenses that may be issued and outstanding at any one time is hereby fixed at five.
c. 
DRIVER – Shall mean any person who drives a limousine within the borough.
d. 
LICENSED – Shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate subsections of this section, unless otherwise stated.
e. 
BOROUGH – Shall mean the Borough of Cliffside Park.
f. 
OPERATION OF A LIMOUSINE – Shall consist of accepting and transporting in such limousine one or more persons for hire from a point within the borough. The operation of a limousine by one other than the owner shall be deemed operation by the owner thereof as well as by the person actually driving the same.
g. 
OWNER – Shall mean any person, corporation or association in whose name title to any limousine is registered with the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles, or who appears in such records to be the conditional vendee or lessee thereof.
h. 
COUNCIL – Shall mean the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Cliffside Park.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
There are hereby established two classes of limousine licenses to be known as "limousine driver's license" and "limousine owner's license," respectively.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
A "limousine driver's license" shall entitle the person named therein to operate within the Borough of Cliffside Park any limousine duly licensed hereunder until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
A "limousine owner's license" shall entitle the limousine therein described to be operated in this borough by a driver duly licensed hereunder until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked, and shall not be transferable.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
Any license issued pursuant to the terms of this section shall expire at midnight on December 31 of the year in which it was issued unless sooner surrendered, suspended or revoked.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. 
All applications for the issuance or the renewal of any license of either class shall be made to the council on forms to be obtained from the borough clerk and designed to elicit information respecting the identification, responsibility and law abiding habits of the applicant.
b. 
Each applicant for a license of any class shall supply the information requested on the application in full and verify the correctness thereof by his oath or affirmation and thereafter file the completed application with the police department together with the full amount of the proper fee hereinafter fixed therefor.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. 
All applications for the issuance or renewal of a "limousine owner's license" shall be made in writing, in duplicate, and shall contain the full name and address of the owner, the serial number, type, color, year and make of the limousine and the number of persons it is to carry. Any and every change of address of the owner shall be reported to the borough clerk within three days after such change.
b. 
Every person obtaining a "limousine owner's license" shall be at least 18 years of age and a citizen of the United States and shall have a regularly registered business office and shall therein have a telephone operating.
c. 
No "limousine owner's license" shall be issued until the limousine has been thoroughly inspected by the police department and found to be in a safe, clean and sanitary condition for the transportation of passengers.
d. 
No limousine licensed under this section shall be maintained or operated on the streets of the borough except by a driver licensed in accordance with the provisions of this subsection.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. 
Each applicant for a "limousine driver's license" shall be at least 18 years of age, a citizen of the United States and a holder of a valid driver's license issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles, State of New Jersey.
b. 
Each applicant for a "limousine driver's license" shall file with his application two photographs, each three and one half inches square clearly depicting the facial features of the applicant, both of which photographs shall thereupon become the property of the borough and be retained with the application form unless the application shall be issued in which event one of the photographs shall be permanently affixed to the license card in a space provided therein.
c. 
Each applicant for a "limousine driver's license" shall be fingerprinted by the police department of the borough, which fingerprints shall thereupon become the property of the borough and be retained with the application form.
d. 
All changes of residence on the part of the holder of any "limousine driver's license" issued under this section shall be reported in writing to the borough clerk within three days after such change and shall be directed to the police department of the borough.
e. 
The borough clerk is hereby authorized to issue temporary "limousine driver's licenses" pending the approval by the council of any application for a "limousine driver's license" submitted in accordance with the provisions of this section provided that the chief of police of the borough shall first certify to the borough clerk that after due investigation, the applicant is not ineligible under the provisions of this section.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. 
Every applicant for a "limousine driver's license" shall submit the insurance policy or bond required by Sections 48:16-14 and 48:16-15 of the Statutes of New Jersey covering the limousine to be licensed and shall execute and deliver to the borough clerk concurrently with the filing of the policy or bond aforesaid a power of attorney, wherein and whereby the owner shall appoint the borough clerk his true and lawful attorney for the purpose of acknowledging service of any process out of a court of competent jurisdiction to be served against the insured by virtue of the indemnity granted under the insurance policy or bond filed in accordance with Section 48: 16-16 of the Statutes of New Jersey.
b. 
The borough clerk, upon filing of the required insurance policy or bond, shall issue a certificate in duplicate showing that the owner of the limousine has complied with the terms of the New Jersey Statutes, aforementioned, which certificate shall recite the name of the insurance company, the number and date of expiration of the policy or bond, a description of the limousine insured thereunder and the registration number of the same. The duplicate certificate shall be filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles before any such car is licensed as a limousine. The original certificate shall be posted in a conspicuous place within the limousine.
[Ord. No. 16-80; Ord. 4-82]
The annual license fee for each limousine driver's license hereafter issued or any renewal thereof shall be ten ($10.00) dollars for each year or portion of a year for which the license is issued or renewed. The annual fee for each limousine owner's license hereafter issued or any renewal thereof, shall be seventy-five ($75.00) dollars for each limousine for each year or portion of a year for which the license is issued or renewed and all such licenses shall be under the charge and control of the person applying therefor and he shall be responsible for the operation of all cars so licensed to him.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
The council may, in its discretion, refuse to issue or renew or may, after notice and hearing, revoke or suspend:
a. 
Any license of either class if the applicant or licensee has been once convicted of a crime in this or any other jurisdiction or convicted of being a disorderly person or of a violation of Title 39, Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation," of the Statutes of New Jersey, or who has been dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States of America, or who violates any provision of this section, or has any judgment unsatisfied of record against him arising out of an automobile accident, or who has made false answers in his application for such license or any renewal thereof, or who has failed or fails to render reasonably prompt, safe, and adequate limousine service, or who has not complied fully with all requirements of this section for such class of license;
b. 
Any "limousine driver's license" if the licensee or the applicant has in any degree contributed to any injury to persons or damage to property arising out of negligent operation of a motor vehicle, or has any communicable or contagious disease;
c. 
Any "limousine owner's license" if the motor vehicle licensed or to be licensed, by reason of unsafe or unsanitary conditions, is dangerous or unsafe to the occupants or others, or if the policy of insurance or bond or power of attorney required by Sections 48:16-14, 48:16-15 and 48:16-16 of the New Jersey Statutes of the aforementioned has not been furnished or kept in force, or if the owner fails to comply with any terms or conditions imposed by the council, or any law of this State.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. 
Each applicant granted a "limousine driver's license" shall be issued a license card in evidence thereof in a form approved by council and signed by the borough clerk in its behalf. Such license card shall at all times be prominently displayed and adequately protected in the interior of any vehicle operated by the licensee so that the face thereof shall be at all times in full view of and plainly legible to any passenger seated on the rear seat of such limousine; and the license card shall at all times be and remain the property of the borough and on direction of council shall at once be surrendered to the borough clerk.
b. 
No "limousine driver's license" card other than that of the licensee actually operating the limousine at the time shall be displayed therein.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. 
Drivers of limousines shall not receive or discharge passengers in the roadway, but shall pull up to the right-hand sidewalk or as nearly as possible thereto, or, in the absence of a sidewalk, to the extreme right hand side of the road, and there receive or discharge passengers, except on one-way streets where passengers may be discharged on either right or left hand sidewalk or at the side of a roadway in the absence of a sidewalk.
b. 
No limousine shall be operated about the streets of the borough so as to solicit passengers or to bring the presence of the limousine to the attention of prospective passengers.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. 
All vehicles herein required to be licensed, or used or operated for the carrying of passengers within the scope of this section shall be automobile sedans with a minimum of three doors, at least two of which doors shall be for the exclusive use of the passengers. These automobiles shall at all times be clean and in good repair.
b. 
No person other than the licensed driver of a passenger of the limousine shall ride or sit in the compartment of the limousine reserved for the driver.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
No limousine shall be licensed until an insurance policy or certificate in lieu thereof shall have been filed with the borough clerk with liability limits not less than $100,000.00 — $300,000.00 for bodily injury and $10,000.00 for property damage.