[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee (now Council)
of the Township of Gloucester 7-6-1948 by Ord. No. 145. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words and phrases, and their derivatives, when
used in this chapter, shall have the meanings hereafter ascribed to
them:
Any person who drives a taxicab within the Township of Gloucester.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section of this
chapter.
Includes any automobile or motor car with a seating capacity
of not more than 14 passengers, not including the driver, provided
that such vehicle shall not have a seating capacity in excess of four
passengers, not including the driver, beyond the maximum passenger
seating capacity of the vehicle not including the driver at the time
of manufacture, and used in the business of carrying passengers for
hire to provide prearranged passenger transportation on a dedicated,
nonscheduled charter basis that is not conducted on a regular route.
Nothing in this definition shall be construed to include taxicabs.
(N.J.S.A. 48:16-13).
[Added 1-24-2004 by Ord.
No. O-04-03]
Shall consist of transporting in such taxicab one or more
persons for hire along any of the streets or highways of the Township
of Gloucester. Accepting a passenger to be transported for hire within
this Township or from a point within this Township to a point outside
of the Township limits, or discharging a passenger transported for
hire from a point outside of the Township limits to a point within
the Township limits, shall be deemed to be "operation of a taxicab"
within the Township of Gloucester under the terms hereof. 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 as well as by the
person actually driving the same. The transportation of any person
other than the owner or driver in any motor vehicle bearing a sign
or signs therein or thereon using the word "taxi," "taxicab," "cab"
or "hack" shall be prima facie evidence of operation.
Any person, corporation or association 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.
Includes the plural as well as the singular and any individual,
copartnership, association, corporation or joint-stock company, their
lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever.
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other
public place or any part thereof.
Includes any automobile or motorcar commonly called "taxi,"
engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, which is
held out, announced or advertised to operator or run, or which is
operated or run, over any of the streets or highways of the Township
of Gloucester, and particularly accepts and discharges such persons
as may offer themselves for transportation from points or places to
points or places within or without the Township of Gloucester.
[Amended 1-24-2004 by Ord. No. O-04-03]
The Township of Gloucester, in the County of Camden and State
of New Jersey.
From and after the effective date of this chapter, no person
shall operate any taxicab within the Township of Gloucester unless
the taxicab is licensed pursuant to this chapter and conforms to all
the provisions hereof.
[Amended 11-22-1999 by Ord. No. O-99-43]
Any and all licenses issued pursuant to the terms of this chapter
shall expire at 12:00 midnight on the 31st day of January of the year
following which the same was issued, unless sooner surrendered, suspended
or revoked.
All applications for the issuance or renewal of any license
shall be made to the Township Committee on forms adopted by said Township
Committee and obtained from the Township Clerk and designed to elicit
information respecting the identification, responsibility and law-abiding
habits of the applicant.
[Amended 1-24-2004 by Ord. No. O-04-03]
Each applicant for a license 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 Township Clerk, together with the full amount of the proper
fee hereinafter fixed therefor, at least one week before said application
shall be acted upon by the Township Council. All applicants shall
be required to provide information sufficient for an initial municipal
background check and at renewal time for the companies they work for.
[Amended 12-16-1954 by Ord. No. 188; 1-24-2004 by Ord. No. O-04-03]
[Added 5-20-1970 by Ord.
No. 392; amended 1-24-2004 by Ord. No. O-04-03]
A.
Limousines. No license or other consent shall become effective and
no such operation shall be permitted until the owner of such limousine
shall have filed with the Municipal Clerk an insurance policy or certificate
thereof of a company duly licensed to transact business under the
insurance laws of the State of New Jersey, in the amount of $1,500,000
to satisfy any claims for damages by reason of bodily injury to or
the death of any person resulting from an accident, and a sum of $1,500,000
on account of any such accident, by reason of the ownership, operation,
maintenance or use of such limousine upon any public street; and conditioned
for the payment of a sum not less than $1,500,000 to satisfy any claim
for damages to property of all persons resulting from an accident,
and a sum not less than $1,500,000 to satisfy all claims for damages
to property of all persons on account of any such accident, by reason
of the ownership, operation, maintenance or use of such limousine
upon any public street.
B.
Taxicabs. No license or other consent shall become effective and
no such operation shall be permitted until the owner of such taxicab
shall have filed with the Municipal Clerk an insurance policy or certificate
thereof, of a company duly licensed to transact business under the
insurance laws of the State of New Jersey, in the sum of not less
than $100,000 to satisfy all claims for damages by reason of bodily
injury to or the death of any one person resulting from an accident,
and a sum of not less than $300,000 to satisfy all claims for damages
by reason of the bodily injuries to or the death of all persons on
account of any such accident, by reason of the ownership, operation,
maintenance or use of such taxicab upon any public street; and conditioned
for the payment of a sum not less than $50,000 to satisfy any claim
for damages to property of any one person resulting from an accident,
and a sum not less than $50,000 to satisfy all claims for damages
to property of all persons on account of any such accident, by reason
of the ownership, operation, maintenance or use of such taxicab upon
any public street.
[Amended 3-8-2004 by Ord.
No. O-04-07]
The Township Committee may, in its discretion, refuse to issue
or renew, or may, after notice and hearing, revoke or suspend, any
license:
A.
If the applicant or licensee has been convicted of a crime in this
or any other jurisdiction, or convicted of being a disorderly person
or of a violation of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey
entitled "Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations," or who violates
any provision of this chapter or has any judgment unsatisfied of record
against his arising out of an automobile accident, or who is not a
citizen of the United States of America or who has made false answers
in his application for such license or any renewals thereof, or who
has failed or fails to render reasonably prompt, safe and adequate
taxicab service, or who has not complied fully with all the requirements
of this chapter; or
B.
If the motor vehicle licensed or to be licensed, by reason of unsafe
or unsanitary condition, is dangerous to the safety or health of the
occupants thereof or others, or if the financial requirements of N.J.S.A.
48:16-1 et seq. have not been complied with or have lapsed, or if
the financial responsibility required thereby is not maintained at
all times.
Each applicant granted a taxicab license shall be issued a license
plate or card made of such material and in such form as the Township
Committee shall decide, which shall at all times be kept clearly legible
and be displayed on the taxicab so licensed. Said license or tag shall
at all times be and remain the property of the Township and, on direction
of the Township Committee, shall at once be surrendered to and deposited
with the Township Clerk.
Every taxicab so licensed shall have displayed on both sides
thereof the word "Taxi" or "Cab" in letters at least six inches high
or the name of the operating owner containing the word "Taxi" or "Cab"
or "Taxicab."
[Amended 5-20-1970 by Ord. No. 392]
Any person or person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine
not exceeding $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not
exceeding 90 days, in the discretion of a court of competent jurisdiction.
All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with the
provisions hereof are, to the extent of the inconsistency, hereby
repealed.
This chapter shall take effect immediately.
