[Adopted 4-19-1923 by Ord. No. 15-1923]
On and after the passage of this article, the mercantile appraiser
shall collect and receive as a license fee for sight-seeing buses,
licensed to use the streets of Atlantic City for sight-seeing purposes,
a fee of $100 for each sight-seeing automobile bus.
It shall be unlawful to operate any sight-seeing bus in and
along the streets, avenues and alleys of the City of Atlantic City
without having obtained from the mercantile appraiser a license for
each bus so operated, or intended to be operated.
In the application for license for sightseeing automobile buses,
the applicant must state his full name and address, and if a partnership
the names and addresses of all partners, and if a corporation the
location of its principal office and the name and address of each
of the officers in said corporation, and in addition thereto must
completely describe the automobile buses to be licensed, giving the
maker's number, the motor number, the horsepower of the motor, and
the size and general character of the construction of the body of
said bus, and the number of persons intended to be carried therein.
It shall be lawful for two sight-seeing buses to occupy the
street ends adjacent to the Boardwalk on each of the streets of the
City of Atlantic City, and it shall be unlawful for more than two
sight-seeing buses to occupy any street end at any one time, and no
licensee hereunder shall have more than one bus at any street end
at any one time. The purpose of this provision is to prevent one licensee
from occupying two spaces at a street end at any one time, and thereby
excluding competition.
No licensed sight-seeing automobile bus shall have employed
by it and working with it any more than one solicitor, and no solicitor
seeking patronage for said buses shall operate from the Boardwalk
nor on the approaches to the Boardwalk, and it shall be unlawful for
said solicitor to solicit patronage at a greater distance from his
sight-seeing bus than five feet.
[Amended 2-1-1989 by Ord. No. 2-1989; 11-25-2008 by Ord. No.
104-2008]
Any person or persons, partnership or corporation violating
the provisions of this article shall, upon the conviction thereof,
be subject to a penalty of not more than $2,000 or imprisonment for
a term not to exceed 90 days, or both.
