[HISTORY: Derived from Ch. IV, Sec. 4-8, of the Revised General Ordinances
of the Borough of Fort Lee, 1978, adopted 3-1-1979. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A bus or buses or other vehicle or vehicles propelled by motor power
operated by the person owning or leasing such bus or other vehicle propelled
by motor power pursuant to a contract agreement, or arrangement to furnish
an auto bus or other vehicle propelled by motor power and a driver thereof
to a person, group of persons or organization (corporate or otherwise) for
a trip designated by such person, group of persons or organization for a fixed
charge per trip, per auto bus, per vehicle or per mile, or operated by the
person owning or leasing such bus or other vehicle propelled by motor power
for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire, each passenger paying a fixed
charge for his carriage, on a special trip arranged and designated by such
owner or lessee, which fixed charge may or may not include meals, entertainment
or other fixed charges.
Excepting as otherwise herein provided, it shall be unlawful for any
charter auto bus to enter into and load or unload its passengers or to park
within the borough on any street without first having made application for
and obtained from the Borough Clerk a written permit authorizing the entry
and loading and unloading of its passengers, and the parking of the charter
auto bus on a certain and specific date. The application for the permit shall
be in duplicate, shall be in writing, addressed to the Borough Clerk, with
the duplicate delivered to the Chief of Police and shall state the name and
address of the person, group of persons or organization, corporate or otherwise,
making the application, the exact address from which the bus ride will originate,
the number of persons expected, the number of buses to be used, the specific
date, the approximate time of arrival in the borough, the specific point of
destination and the period of time during which the charter auto bus or buses
and persons expect to remain in the borough. The Borough Clerk may issue a
permit for which there shall be no fee, authorizing the entry, loading, unloading
and parking of the charter auto bus in the borough at such place or places
designated by the Chief of Police. The application must be submitted to the
Borough Clerk and Chief of Police within a reasonable period of time before
the date of arrival.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any charter auto bus or
buses, as herein defined, on any street in the borough during any day of the
week, including Sunday, except in the place or places as designated in any
written permit designated by the Chief of Police in accordance with the application
therefor required by this chapter.
A.
Nothing herein contained shall apply to any excursion
on charter buses originating in the Borough of Fort Lee and leaving for points
elsewhere.
B.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to include
taxicabs or buses employed solely in transporting school children or such
omnibuses or other vehicles operated by virtue of a franchise from the borough
or auto buses which operate within the borough under any municipal consent
over a regularly established route, either intrastate or interstate, between
fixed termini upon a regularly established and published schedule.
This chapter is hereby declared to be necessary in the interest of the
public safety and health of the community, to relieve congestion of traffic
in the borough, to lessen fire hazard occasioned by the obstruction due to
charter auto buses between April 1 and October 1 and to provide for certain
necessary police regulation of charter auto buses.
