As used in this chapter:
Shall mean the practice of driving about the streets of the
borough with a taxicab for the purpose of soliciting passengers or
presenting the purpose of the taxicab to the attention of prospective
passengers. A taxicab driving along the streets of the borough for
any purpose other than while transporting a passenger going to a definite
destination by the most direct route in response to a call for a taxicab
by a prospective passenger or returning by the most direct route to
the taxicab's home by the most direct route shall be prima facie
evidence of cruising.
Shall mean any person who drives a taxicab within the borough.
Shall mean licenses in accordance with the appropriate section
of this chapter.
Shall mean operation of a taxicab consisting of transporting
in such taxicab one or more persons for hire along any of the streets
or public highways of the borough, Accepting a passenger to be transported
for hire within the borough or from a point within the borough to
a point outside the borough shall be deemed to be 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 the sign therein or thereupon using any
of the words "taxi", "taxicab", "cab" or "hack" shall be prima facie
evidence of operation.
Shall mean any person in whose name title to any taxicab
is registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles of the State of
New Jersey or who appears in such records to be the conditional vendee
or leasee thereof.
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 or public highways within the borough
aforesaid, and which accepts passengers for transportation from points
or places to points or places within or without the borough.
No person shall operate any taxicab within the borough, unless
both the taxicab and the driver thereof are licensed pursuant to this
chapter and conform to all the provisions hereof and to the provisions
of all applicable statutes.
There are hereby established two classes of taxicab licenses
to be known as "taxicab driver's license" and "taxicab owner's
license", respectively.
A taxicab driver's license shall entitle the person named
therein to operate within the limits of the borough any taxicab duly
licensed hereunder and under the Laws of the State of New Jersey,
until the license granted pursuant to the terms of this chapter either
expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable.
A taxicab owner's license shall entitle the taxicab therein
described to be operated in the borough by a driver duly licensed
hereunder and duly licensed under the Laws of this State, until the
license granted pursuant to the terms of this chapter either expires
or is surrendered, suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable.
No taxicab license or taxicab driver's license shall be
issued:
a.
To an individual who is not a citizen of the United States or who
has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude.
b.
To a corporation unless each of the officers, directors, and stockholders
thereof is a citizen of the United States and none of whom has been
convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude.
All licenses issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire at
midnight December 31 of each year, unless sooner surrendered, suspended
or revoked. No license fee payable under this chapter shall be prorated
nor shall any part thereof be refunded for any reason unless a license
is refused.
All applications for the issuance or renewal of any license
of either class shall be made to the Mayor and borough council on
forms to be adopted by the Mayor and borough council and to be obtained
from the borough Clerk and designed to elicit information respecting
the identification, responsibility and law abiding habits of the applicant.
Every application for a taxicab license or a taxicab driver's
license shall be verified by the oath or an affirmation of the applicant
or applicants, if an individual or copartnership, and if a corporation,
shall be verified by the oath or affirmation of an officer thereof.
Every application for a taxicab owner's license shall set
forth the full name and address of the owner, lessee, or bailee of
the taxicab to be licensed, the make and character of the taxicab,
the length of time it has been in use, the number of persons the vehicle
is suitable for carrying, the motor number and serial number of the
vehicle, the present value of the vehicle and the place where it may
be inspected by the Mayor and borough council or their duly authorized
representative. Each application shall be accompanied by a license
fee of $25 for each taxicab to be licensed. All applications for a
taxicab owner's license shall be filed with the borough Clerk
at least three weeks before the application shall be acted upon by
the Mayor and borough council.
Every applicant for a taxicab owner's license shall file
with his application a statement as to the hours when the taxicabs
shall be in operation for public use and a statement of the fares,
charges or tariff rates. The failure of any licensee to provide taxi
service to the general public during the hours named in the statement
or receiving fares, charges or tariff rates other than set forth in
the statement shall be sufficient cause for revocation of any license.
Fares that may be charged by licensed taxicab operators for
transportation of persons, are as follows:
$0.80 For the first 1/2 mile
$0.10 For each additional 1/7 mile
$0.20 For each person in excess of three
A meter is required in each cab.
No taxicab owner's license shall be issued until the applicant
therefor files with the borough Clerk an insurance policy of a company
duly licensed to transact business under the insurance laws of this
state in the sum of not less than $50,000, insuring against loss by
reason of the liability imposed by law upon the owner or driver of
the taxicab for damages on account of bodily injury or death suffered
by any person as the result of or by reason of the ownership, maintenance
or use of any taxicab within the borough, and in the sum of not less
than $100,000 insuring against such loss or damage suffered by more
than one person as the result of such ownership, maintenance or use;
and the insurance policy shall also provide for property damage insurance
in the sum of not less than $25,000 for damage arising out of such
ownership, maintenance or use. Any license issued for any such operation
of the taxicab thereunder shall be permitted only so long as the insurance
policy shall remain in force to the full and collectible amounts aforesaid.
No taxicab owner's license shall be issued until the applicant
therefore shall have delivered to the borough Clerk, concurrently
with the filing of the insurance policy hereinbefore referred to,
a power of attorney executed by the applicant wherein and whereby
the applicant shall appoint the treasurer of the borough his true
and lawful attorney for the purposes 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 filed, and any license for a taxicab issued upon any such application
shall continue effective and the operation of any taxicab thereunder
shall be permitted, only so long as the power of attorney shall remain
in effect and unrevoked.
If the application for a taxicab owner's license shall
be granted, there shall be issued to the applicant a license card
in evidence thereof setting forth the name and address of the licensee,
the number of the license, and make and character of the taxicab licensed,
together with the motor number and serial number of the vehicle and
the maximum number of passengers to be carried therein at any one
time. The license card shall be signed by the borough Clerk and shall
at all times be prominently displayed and adequately protected in
the interior of any taxicab so licensed so that the fact thereof shall
be at all times in full view and plainly legible to any passenger
seated on the rear seat of such taxicab. There shall also be displayed
in the interior of the taxicab so licensed a statement or schedule
of the charges for the use thereof. Any taxicab license issued pursuant
hereto may be transferred to another vehicle owned or in the custody
of the same licensee, upon the payment of a transfer fee of $1 and
upon the approval of the Mayor and borough council. There shall also
be displayed on the exterior rear portion of each taxicab, so licensed,
a metal license plate or decal which shall be furnished and supplied
by the borough.
The borough cannot issue more than one license for each 125
registered voters of the borough.
Every application for a taxicab driver's license shall
set forth the full name and address of the applicant, his age, whether
or not he is a citizen of the United States and whether or not he
has ever been convicted of a crime and, if so, the crime of which
he has been convicted, the place of conviction, the date thereof and
the punishment therefor. Such applicant shall also furnish satisfactory
evidence that he has received a driver's license from the Motor
Vehicle Department of the State of New Jersey. No taxicab driver's
license shall be issued to any person who shall be under 19 years
of age. Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license shall,
at the time of filing his application, be fingerprinted by the police
department of the borough, which fingerprint impressions may be used
by the borough for securing from any agency any report it may deem
necessary with respect to the application. The fingerprint impression
and any report received with respect thereto shall be affixed to the
application before consideration thereof by the Mayor and borough
council. A license fee of $2 shall accompany each application for
a taxicab driver's license.
If the application for a taxicab driver's license shall
be granted, there shall be issued to the applicant a license card
in evidence thereof setting forth the number of the license, the name
and address of the licensee and his age. The license card shall be
signed by the borough Clerk and shall at all times be permanently
displayed, adequately protected, in the interior of any taxicab operated
by the licensee so that the fact thereof shall be at all times in
full view of and plainly legible to any passenger seated on the rear
seat of such taxicab.
The Mayor and borough council may refuse to issue or renew or
may, after notice and hearing, revoke or suspend any license of either
class if the applicant or of insurance required by this chapter has
lapsed or such coverage is not maintained at all times.
No taxicab shall hereafter be operated in the borough, unless
and until there is prominently displayed in the interior thereof,
within the full view and access of any passengers therein, a complete
list of fares, charges or tariff rates charged for transportation
of passengers, which fares, charges or tariff rates so displayed,
and no others, shall be those to be charged any passenger or transported.
Every taxicab so licensed shall have painted on both sides thereof
one of the words "taxi" or "cab", in letters at least three inches
high, or the name of the operating owner, containing at least one
of the words "taxi", "cab" or "taxicab". Every taxicab so licensed
shall have painted on each side thereof, in letters at least one inch
high the name of the owner thereof followed or preceded by the word
"owner".
The owner of each taxicab so licensed shall keep or require
to be kept a written record of each trip made by the taxicab, showing
the number of daily trips. Such record shall not be destroyed for
at least one year from the date of the trip and shall be kept within
the borough in readily accessible form and shall be accessible at
all reasonable times for inspection by the Mayor and borough council.
No person shall park or rank any taxicab on any of the streets
on the borough at any time, except at such place as may be lawfully
designated as municipal taxi stands.
No person shall cruise on the streets of the borough with any
taxicab at any time for the purpose of soliciting passengers.
