As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
CITY
The City of Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
DRIVER
Any person who drives a taxicab within this city.
ENTITY
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies,
firms, partnerships and joint-stock companies.
[Added 5-21-2001 by Ord. No. 11-2001; amended 11-20-2006 by Ord. No. 45-2006]
OWNER
Any individual, partnership or corporation licensed by the
City for ownership rights.
RENTER
Any person who has filed a leasing disclosure statement and
filed the necessary papers to lease a taxicab.
STREET
Includes any street, avenue, park, local, county, state or
federal highway or other public roadway located within the city, whether
or not the same is an improved road.
TAXICAB
Any automobile or motor car capable of carrying up to six
passengers, including the driver, duly licensed by the City and engaged
in the business of carrying passengers for hire, which is held out,
announced or advertised to operate or run or which is operated and
run over any of the streets within the City and which accepts passengers
for transportation from points and places within the City to points
and places within or without the same city; provided, however, that
nothing herein contained shall include autobuses, streetcars, limousines,
jitneys or such public conveyances as are by law exclusively subject
to state and/or federal regulation.
No taxicab license shall be granted authorizing
the operation of any vehicle as a taxi unless said vehicle conforms
with all the provisions of this chapter.
[Added 4-2-2001 by Ord. No. 4-2001]
There shall be no taxicab stands on the streets
of the City of Pleasantville unless otherwise established by the Public
Safety Committee of City Council. The following taxi location is hereby
designated: the north side of East West Jersey Avenue from a point
225 feet east of the easterly line of Main Street to a point 100 feet
east therefrom.
There are hereby established three classes of
taxicab licenses to be known as "taxicab owner's license," "taxicab
driver's license" and "taxicab renter's license."
A. Taxicab owner's license. A taxicab owner's license
shall entitle a taxicab therein described to pick up passengers within
the City and to otherwise be lawfully operated anywhere within this
City by a driver duly licensed hereunder and by the New Jersey Division
of Motor Vehicles until either of said licenses expire or are surrendered,
suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable. Taxicab owner's
licenses shall be limited to no more than two per owner.
B. Taxicab driver's license. A taxicab driver's license
shall entitle the person named therein to operate within this City
any taxicab duly licensed hereunder and by the New Jersey Division
of Motor Vehicles until either of said licenses expire or is surrendered,
suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable. There shall be
no limit to the number of taxicab driver's licenses issued.
C. Taxicab renter's license. A taxicab renter's license
shall entitle the person named therein to rent and/or lease and operate
one taxicab within this city. The taxicab shall be duly licensed by
the owner with the City and by the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles
until either of said licenses expire or is surrendered, suspended
or revoked. The taxicab renter's license shall not be transferable.
D. No one is permitted to operate a taxicab in the City
of Pleasantville unless they have been issued a license by the City
Clerk. This includes the picking up of any passengers within the City
limits.
[Added 4-2-2001 by Ord. No. 4-2001]
E. No one is permitted to operate a taxicab in the City
of Pleasantville unless they are operating as a representative of
a company that has been approved by the City of Pleasantville.
[Added 6-2-2008 by Ord. No. 12-2008]
[Amended 6-2-2008 by Ord. No. 12-2008]
A. Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license, taxicab
owner's license or taxicab renter's license shall be required to submit
to an investigation, processing a criminal background check for both
state and local for any criminal record. No application for a taxicab
driver's license or taxicab owner's license shall be approved until
such time as the applicant has executed a form of consent and release
so as to permit the Pleasantville Police Department to conduct such
investigation as may be required in order to determine that the applicant
substantially complies with the meaning, intent and purpose of this
chapter.
B. The following guidelines for criminal background investigation
could disqualify an applicant pending the approval by the Public Safety
Committee:
(1) Conviction of a first or second degree crime.
(2) Conviction of a third or fourth degree crime within
the five years prior to licensing application date.
(3) Conviction of an offense, Title 2C, Chapter 14 (sex
offenses).
(4) Conviction of an offense, Title 2C, Chapter 35 (controlled
dangerous substance), within the five years prior to licensing application
date.
(5) Conviction of two or more disorderly persons offenses
within one year prior to licensing application date.
C. The following guideline for motor vehicle traffic/driving
record could disqualify an applicant pending the approval by the Public
Safety Committee:
(1) Two convictions of any violation of Title 39, Chapter
4, within one year prior to licensing application date.
(2) Two reportable accidents within one year prior to
licensing application date that can be determined to be the fault
of the applicant.
(3) An average 1.5 convictions of Title 39, Chapter
4, for the last three years, one of which occurred within one year prior to licensing date.
(4) A combination of one reportable accident and one conviction of Title 39, Chapter
4, that stems from separate incidents within one year prior to licensing application date.
(5) A conviction of operating an uninsured vehicle within
one year prior to licensing application date.
(6) A conviction of Title 39, Chapter 4-50 (DWI), within
10 years prior to licensing application date.
(7) Any other convictions or combinations thereof contained
in these guidelines (both criminal and motor vehicle) which, in the
investigator's opinion, would affect the public health and safety
and welfare.
No taxicab owner's, renter's or driver's license
shall be issued until the applicant therefor shall have delivered
to the City Clerk, concurrently with the filing of the application
and insurance policy referred to herein, a power of attorney executed
by said applicant wherein and whereby the applicant shall appoint
the City Clerk for the City as his or her, its true and lawful attorney
for the purpose of acknowledging service of any process out of court
of competent jurisdiction to be served against the insured by virtue
of the indemnity granted under the insurance policy filed.
The Public Safety Committee of City Council
or its designee may, in its discretion, refuse to issue or renew or
may, after notice and hearing, revoke or suspend any license issued
under the provisions of this chapter if the applicant has been convicted
of any crime, disorderly persons offense or petty disorderly persons
offense in this state or in any other state or territory or has been
convicted of a violation under Title 39, Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Regulations, of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey or who violates
any provision of this chapter or has any judgment unsatisfied of record
arising out of an automobile accident or who has made false answers
in the application for such license, or any renewal thereof, or who
has failed or fails to render reasonably prompt, safe and adequate
taxi services or who has not complied fully with all requirements
of this chapter for such class of licensure, or if the licensee or
applicant has in any degree contributed to any injury to person or
damage to property arising out of negligent operation of a motor vehicle
or as to any taxicab owner's license if the motor vehicle licensed
or to be licensed by reason of unsafe or unsanitary conditions is
dangerous to the safety or health of the occupants and others, or
if the policy of insurance required herein has once lapsed or such
coverage is not maintained at all times or a taxicab at any time carries
more passengers than the same is authorized to carry by the terms
of this chapter.