As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The driving of an empty taxicab to and fro along a public
street at a slow rate of speed for the obvious purpose of soliciting
passengers.
Any automobile or motor vehicle, commonly called "taxi,"
"autocab," "limousine" or by whatever other name or designation they
may be known, engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire,
which is held out, announced or advertised to operate or run over
the public streets or highways in the Township and particularly accepts
and discharges persons who may offer themselves for transportation
from points or places within the Township to points or places within
or without the Township or which is hired by charter or for a particular
contract or by the day or hour, or other fixed period, or to transport
passengers to a specified place or places or which charges a fare
or price agreed upon in advance between the operator and the passenger.
Nothing in this definition or chapter shall apply to omnibuses or
to school buses.
