Every applicant as owner shall be at least 18 years of age.
Every applicant for a driver's license shall be at least 18 years
of age and a holder of an auto driver's license of the State
of New Jersey. All applicants shall be of good moral character, and
the owner of a taxicab, when applying for license to drive, shall
submit the cab or its description to the Borough Council for its approval
before such license shall be granted, and the applicant for a driver's
license shall, if required, present himself to a physician selected
by the Borough Council for examination at applicant's cost as
to eyesight and physical disability which might render his operation
of a taxicab dangerous to the traveling public or the passengers in
the cab.
Every driver of a taxicab shall have the right to demand payment
of the legal fare in advance and may refuse employment unless it is
prepaid, but no driver shall otherwise refuse or neglect to convey
any orderly person.
Every applicant hereunder shall comply with the insurance laws
of the State of New Jersey affecting or regulating the insurance of
taxicabs before the license is issued.
Any owner having had one or more taxicabs licensed during the
previous year may license additional taxicabs at any time during the
year upon payment of the fee herein provided. Every applicant as owner
having no taxicab licensed during the previous license year shall
make application not later than October 1, and no application shall
be granted to commence operation before October 1 nor later than October
31 of the license year.
Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a person of legal age
who is licensed by the State of New Jersey to drive motor vehicles
from driving a taxicab in an emergency.
[Added 3-15-1995 by Ord.
No. 95-11]; amended 7-8-02 by Ord. No. 02-23]
Any person violating any part of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to the penalty provided by Chapter
1, Article
III.