[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Winslow 9-27-05 as Ord. No. O-26-05. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A limousine.
Any automobile or motor car used in the business 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 fourteen (14) passengers, not including the
driver, provided, that such vehicle shall not have a seating capacity
in excess of four (4) passengers, not including the driver, beyond
the maximum passenger seating capacity of the vehicle, not including
the driver, at the time of manufacture. Nothing in this chapter contained
herein shall be construed to include taxicabs, hotel buses or buses
employed solely in transporting school children or teachers or 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 intersection 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.
The business of carrying passengers for hire by limousines.
Any individual, copartnership, association, corporation,
or joint stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed
by any court whatsoever.
In reference to a municipality, the location of the main
place of business of the limousine service in the municipality where
limousine service is conducted, where limousines are displaced, or
where limousine drivers report for duty.
Any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway, or other public
place.
[Amended 9-26-2023 by Ord. No. O-2023-020]
Except as provided in Section 14 of P.L. 1999, c. 356 (N.J.S.A.
48:16-22.4), no limousine shall be operated wholly or partly along
any street in the Township until the owner of the limousine shall
have filed with the clerk of the municipality in which the owner has
his principal place of business an insurance policy of a company duly
licensed to transact business under the insurance laws of this state
in the sum of $1,500,000 against loss by reason of the liability imposed
by law upon every limousine owner for damages on account of bodily
injury or death suffered by any person as the result of an accident
occurring by reason of the ownership, maintenance or use of the limousine
upon any public street. Such operation shall be permitted only so
long as the insurance policy shall remain in force to the full and
collectible amount of $1,500,000. The insurance policy shall provide
for the payment of any final judgment recovered by any person on account
of the ownership, maintenance and use of such limousine or any fault
in respect thereto, and shall be for the benefit of every person suffering
loss, damage or injury as aforesaid.
[Amended 9-26-2023 by Ord. No. O-2023-020]
A.Â
All limousine services that have their principal offices located
within the Township of Winslow shall apply to the Township Clerk's
office for a license to operate in the Township. Each limousine service
shall, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 48:16-17, 1) file a copy of the required
insurance policy with the Township Clerk; 2) pay a fee of $50 for
the limousine business; and 3) pay an additional $10 for each limousine
covered under the required insurance policy; whereupon the Township
Clerk shall issue, in duplicate, a license to operate to the owner
of the limousine service, showing that the owner of the limousine
service has complied with the terms and conditions of N.J.S.A. 48:16-17.
B.Â
The license issued by the Township Clerk shall recite the name of
the insurance company, the number and date of the expiration of the
policy, a description of every limousine insured under said policy,
and the registration number of each covered limousine.
C.Â
Notwithstanding any provisions contained in this chapter to the contrary,
no person lawfully engaged in limousine service on an intrastate basis
between or among political subdivisions within the State of New Jersey
need obtain a license pursuant to this chapter unless the owner maintains
his or her principal place of business within the Township.
The clerk of the municipality, in which the owner has his principal
place of business, upon the filing of the required insurance policy
and the payment of a fee which shall not exceed fifty dollars ($50.),
shall issue in duplicate a license to operate showing that the owner
of the limousine has complied with the terms and provisions of this
chapter.
The license shall recite the name of the insurance company,
the number and date of expiration of the policy, a description of
every limousine insured thereunder, and the registration number of
the same.
The duplicate license shall be filed with the Motor Vehicle
Commission before any such car is registered as a limousine.
The original license shall be retained within the limousine
and shall be available for inspection by any police officer in the
State. In lieu of the recital of insurance information required on
the license pursuant to this section, the owner of a limousine may
affix to the original license retained within the 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 State. A copy of the notarized letter shall
constitute proof to the Director of the Motor Vehicle Commission,
that the applicant has complied with the insurance provisions of this
section.
All licenses granted hereunder shall expire on the first day of July succeeding the date of issue. In the case of an application for a limousine license made after the first day of January in any year, the fee to be paid therefor shall be one half (1/2) the amount set forth in Section 172-3.
[Amended 9-26-2023 by Ord. No. O-2023-020]
Every holder of a limousine license, when driving or operating
any vehicle therein, is required to be licensed and shall have in
their possession the license issued by the Township of Winslow. The
fee to be paid for the limousine driver's license pursuant to this
section shall be the sum of $25 per year for each vehicle.
All limousines shall comply with the requirements of N.J.S.A.
48:16-13 et seq. regulating the operation of limousines in the State
of New Jersey, to include carrying an insurance policy in the amount
set forth in N.J.S.A. 48:16-14.
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this chapter shall have the license revoked, and upon conviction
shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars
($500.). The continuation of such violation for each successive day
shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing
or permitting the continuation of the violation may be subject to
punishment as provided above for each separate offense.
