[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Readington adopted 4-15-1959. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 225.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
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 operate or run, or which is operated
or run, over the streets or public highways of this state, and particularly
accepts and discharges such persons as may offer themselves for transportation
from points or places within or without the state.
Includes any automobile or motor car used in the business
of carrying passengers for hire to provide prearranged passenger transportation
at a premium fare on a dedicated, nonscheduled, charter basis that
is not conducted on a regular route and with a seating capacity in
no event of more than 14 passengers, not including the driver, provided
that such a 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. As used herein, "limousine" does not include
taxicabs (i.e., autocabs), hotel buses, buses or buses employed solely
in transporting school children or teachers, vehicles owned and operated
directly or indirectly by businesses engaged in the practice of mortuary
science when those vehicles are used exclusively for providing transportation
related to the provision of funeral services, autobuses which are
subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation, or
interstate autobuses required by federal or state law or regulations
of the Department of Transportation to carry insurance against loss
from liability imposed by law on account of bodily injury or death.
[Added 11-5-2008 by Ord. No. 32-2008]
Includes the business of carrying passengers for hire by
autocabs.
[Added 10-4-1999 by Ord. No. 20-99]
Includes any individual, copartnership, associations, corporation,
limited-liability company or joint-stock company, their lessee, trustees
or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever.
[Amended 11-5-2008 by Ord. No. 32-2008]
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other
public place.
[Amended 10-4-1999 by Ord. No. 20-99; 11-5-2008 by Ord. No.
32-2008]
A.
No autocab, limousine or livery service shall be operated
along any street in the Township of Readington until the owner thereof
shall obtain: 1) a license from the Clerk of the Township demonstrating
that the owner has complied with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 48:16-13
et seq. (in the case of limousines and livery service); or 2) a license
from the Clerk of the Township upon consent of the municipal governing
body in accordance with N.J.S.A. 48:16-1 et seq. (in the case of autocabs),
as either statute may be amended from time to time.
B.
The fee for a license for an autocab, limousine or
livery service shall be $50.
C.
The license shall recite the name of the insurance
company, the number and date of expiration of the policy, a description
of every limousine or autocab insured thereunder and the registration
of the same.
D.
The original license shall be retained within the
limousine or autocab and shall be available for inspection by any
police officer within the municipality and in the state. However,
in the case of limousines, in lieu of the recital of insurance information
required by the license pursuant to N.J.S.A. 48:16-13 et seq., the
owner of a limousine may affix to the original license retained within
a limousine a notarized letter from an insurance company containing
the same insurance information required in the recital, which shall
constitute proof of insurance coverage, and which shall also be available
for inspection by any police officer in the municipality and in the
state. A copy of the notarized letter shall constitute proof to the
municipality and to the NJ Director of Motor Vehicles that the owner
has complied with the insurance provisions of this chapter and state
statute.
A.
Filing of policy.
[Amended 4-16-1990 by Ord. No. 277-90; 10-4-1999 by Ord. No.
20-99; 11-5-2008 by Ord. No. 32-2008]
(1)
No such consent shall be effective until the owner
of the autocab, limousine or livery service shall have filed with
the Clerk of the Township of Readington an insurance policy that is
in compliance with N.J.S.A. 48:16-14 or N.J.S.A. 48:16-3, as may be
applicable.
(2)
The insurance policy must provide that the Township
will be notified by the insurance company at least 30 days prior to
cancellation. If the Division of Motor Vehicles suspends a limousine
driver’s registatration privilege pursuant to N.J.S.A. 48:16-14,
the limousine owner’s municipal license shall also be automatically
suspended and must be surrendered to the municipality. In the event
an autocab owner fails to keep his, her or its insurance policy in
place, the Township may revoke the license in accordance with the
procedures set forth in N.J.S.A. 48:16-10 et seq.
B.
The consent shall become effective and operation thereunder
shall be permitted for as long as the insurance policy shall remain
in force to the full and collectible amounts as aforesaid.
C.
The insurance policy shall provide for the payment
of any final judgment received by any person on account of the ownership,
maintenance or use of the autocab, limousine or livery service or
any fault in respect thereto and shall be for the benefit of every
person suffering loss, damage or injury as aforesaid.
[Amended 10-4-1999 by Ord. No. 20-99]
D.
This consent shall be renewed on an annual basis.
E.
The numbers set forth herein are minimum amounts.
Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the ability of the Township
Committee to require greater amounts of insurance coverage should
the facts and circumstances of the applicant warrant.
[Added 4-16-1990 by Ord. No. 277-90]
[Added 10-4-1999 by Ord. No. 20-99]
Violation of any provision of this chapter shall
be punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, by
a period of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days and/or by a period
of community service not to exceed 90 days. Each day's continued violation
shall be deemed a separate offense.
