As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
DRIVER
Any person who drives a taxicab within this Township.
OPERATION
Transporting, in a defined vehicle, one or more persons for
hire along any of the streets in this Township, accepting a passenger
to be transported for hire within this Township or from a point within
the Township to a point outside of the Township limits. The operation
of a defined vehicle by one other than the owner shall be deemed "operation"
by the owner thereof as well as by the person actually driving such
vehicle. The transportation of any person other than the owner or
driver in any motor vehicle bearing a sign therein or thereon using
the words "taxi," "taxicab," "cab" or "hack" shall be prima facie
evidence of "operation."
OWNER
Any person in whose name title to any defined vehicle is
registered with the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles or who
appears in such record to be the conditional vendee or lessee thereof.
PASSENGER
Any person traveling within a vehicle other than the vehicle
driver.
[Added 12-27-2000 by Ord. No. 54-2000]
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, association, corporation or
joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receiver.
STREET
Any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other public
roadway.
TAXICAB
Any automobile or motorcar, commonly called "taxi," "cab"
or "hack," 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 Township and
which accepts passengers for transportation from points or places
to points or places within or without the Township, provided that
nothing herein contained shall include autobuses or buses on designated
routes, public deliveries or jitneys or such public conveyances as
are by law exclusively subject to state and/or federal regulation.