As used in this chapter:
CRUISING
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.
DRIVER
Shall mean any person who drives a taxicab within the borough.
LICENSES
Shall mean licenses in accordance with the appropriate section of this chapter.
OPERATION
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.
OWNER
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.
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 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.