[Adopted 12-23-1986 by Ord. No. 86-28]
Borough of Paramus, NJ
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 285 Limousine Services and Taxicabs
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Part 2 Limousine Services
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Access to All Advisory Board
- Ch 4 Administrative Assistant
- Ch 5 Administrator, Municipal
- Ch 6 Administrative Code
- Ch 7 Affordable Housing Liaison/Rehabilitation Coordinator
- Ch 8 Aggregation Program for Energy and Natural Gas
- Ch 9 Emergency Medical Services, Division of
- Ch 10 Emergency Management Stipend Program
- Ch 13 Buildings and Traffic Maintenance, Department of
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Consultant for Site Plan Review
- Ch 21 Consumer Protection Committee
- Ch 25 Court, Municipal
- Ch 25A Credit Card Payments for Municipal Fees
- Ch 26 Cultural Arts Council
- Ch 27 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 27A Direct Deposit, Mandated
- Ch 28 Director, Management of Information Services
- Ch 30 Director of Emergency Preparedness
- Ch 31 Director of Human Resources
- Ch 32 Director of Planning
- Ch 32A Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy
- Ch 33 Environmental Commission
- Ch 35 Employees, Part-Time and Seasonal
- Ch 37 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 43 Finance Department
- Ch 47 Fire Department
- Ch 49 Golf Course Manager/Superintendent
- Ch 51 Harassment Policy
- Ch 55 Health and Human Services, Department of
- Ch 57 Head Golf Professional
- Ch 59 Historic Preservation Commission
- Ch 65 Insurance
- Ch 69 Intermunicipal Agreements
- Ch 77 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 81 Legal Department
- Ch 84 (Reserved)
- Ch 85 Life Safety Complex, Use of
- Ch 87 Municipal Clerk, Deputy
- Ch 89 Municipal Humane Law Enforcement Officer
- Ch 91 Municipal Swimming Pool Commissioners, Board of
- Ch 95 Anti-Nepotism Policy
- Ch 99 Personnel Policies
- Ch 103 Police Department
- Ch 105 Public Advocates for Board of Adjustment and Planning Board
- Ch 106 Public Health Supervisor
- Ch 107 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 113 Recreation Commissioners, Board of
- Ch 117 Rescue Squad
- Ch 121 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 125 School Security
- Ch 129 Shade Tree Commissioners, Board of
- Ch 133 Shopping Center Safety Review Committee
- Ch 140 Veterans Affairs Officer
- Ch 141 Office of Emergency Management
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 149 Adult Uses
- Ch 153 Alarm Systems
- Ch 157 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 158 Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary
- Ch 161 Amusement Businesses
- Ch 165 Amusement Devices and Arcades
- Ch 169 Animals
- Ch 173 Background Checks
- Ch 175 Bowling Alleys
- Ch 179 Builders and Contractors
- Ch 181 Building Construction and Alteration Permits
- Ch 183 Buildings and Lots, Numbering of
- Ch 187 Buildings, Truss-Type
- Ch 191 Businesses
- Ch 195 Cell Phones, Use in Motor Vehicles
- Ch 197 Certificates of Compliance and Continued Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 203 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 204 Contribution Disclosure
- Ch 207 (Reserved)
- Ch 210 Affordable Housing — Inclusionary Zoning Requirements
- Ch 211 Demolition Permits
- Ch 212 Door Numbering Requirements
- Ch 213 Drainage and Environmental Protection
- Ch 217 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 219 Duplicate Bills and Fraudulent Checks
- Ch 221 Eminent Domain
- Ch 223 Environmental Impact Statements
- Ch 229 Fees, Land Use
- Ch 233 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 237 Fire Lanes
- Ch 241 Fire Prevention
- Ch 245 Fires, Conduct at
- Ch 249 Flea Markets, Auctions and Games of Chance
- Ch 253 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 254 Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)
- Ch 256 Garage Sales
- Ch 259 Golf and Country Clubs
- Ch 265 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 269 Home Buyers Protection
- Ch 277 Landscaping
- Ch 278 Firewood and Commercial Firewood Processors
- Ch 281 Library
- Ch 285 Limousine Services and Taxicabs
- Ch 285 Pt 2 Limousine Services
- Ch 285 Pt 2 Art V General Provisions
- § 285-33 Definitions.
- § 285-34 Insurance requirements.
- § 285-35 (Reserved)
- § 285-36 Application; bill of sale; registration.
- § 285-37 Fee.
- § 285-38 Certificate of compliance.
- § 285-39 Expiration of license.
- § 285-40 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 289 Littering
- Ch 293 Massage Establishments
- Ch 295 Merchandise, Display of
- Ch 299 Motels and Hotels
- Ch 303 Motion Pictures and Television
- Ch 309 Noise
- Ch 311 Nudity on State-Owned Lands
- Ch 313 Nursing Homes and Commercial Recreational Facilities
- Ch 316 Official Street Map
- Ch 319 (Reserved)
- Ch 322 Rental Properties
- Ch 323 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 327 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 331 Pool Halls and Billiard Rooms
- Ch 335 Professional Services
- Ch 339 Property Maintenance
- Ch 340 Registration of Foreclosing Mortgages and Vacant Property
- Ch 341 Public Records
- Ch 343 Public Utilities
- Ch 345 Restaurants and Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 346 Retail Theft
- Ch 351 Sales, Close-Out
- Ch 355 Satellite Earth Stations
- Ch 359 Precious Metals, Gems and Secondhand Goods, Dealers
- Ch 363 Sewers
- Ch 365 Sex Offenders
- Ch 367 Signs
- Ch 371 Site Plan Review
- Ch 373 Smoking
- Ch 375 Soil Removal
- Ch 379 Solid Waste
- Ch 383 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 387 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 391 Sunday Activities
- Ch 395 Swimming Pools
- Ch 397 Telecommunications Systems
- Ch 398 Temporary Storage Containers
- Ch 401 Towers and Towing
- Ch 403 Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System
- Ch 405 Trapping
- Ch 409 Trespassing
- Ch 412 Vaccinations
- Ch 415 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 419 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 423 Vending Machines
- Ch 426 Volunteer and Veteran Fee Exemptions
- Ch 429 Zoning
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 435 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 436 Animals
- Ch 436A Barbershops, Beauty Parlors and Nail Salons
- Ch 437 Body Piercing, Ear Piercing and Permanent Cosmetics
- Ch 439 Food Service Managers
- Ch 443 Sanitation
- Ch 447 Tattooing
- Ch 449 Tobacco and Cigarettes
- Ch 450 Retail Plastic Bags and Polystyrene Foam
- Part IV: Board of Shade Tree and Park Commissioners Legislation
- Ch 453 Trees and Shrubbery
- Appendix
- Ch A457 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A460 Fees
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
As used in this Part 2, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes any automobile or motor car service with a carrying
capacity of not more than nine passengers, not including the driver,
for carrying passengers for hire which is held out, announced or advertised
to operate or run or which is operated or run over any of the streets
or public highways of this state and 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 contained in this Part 2 shall be construed
to include taxicabs, hotel buses or buses employed solely in transporting
school children or teachers or autobuses.
Includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation
or joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed
by any court whatsoever.
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other
public place.
[Amended 4-10-2001 by Ord. No. 01-12]
No limousine service, whose principal place
of business is in Paramus, shall be operated wholly or partly along
any street in Paramus until the owner of the limousine shall have
filed with the Borough Clerk an insurance policy, from an insurance
company duly licensed to transact business under the insurance laws
of the state, in the sum of $1,500,000. This policy shall protect
against loss by reason of 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 service upon any public
street.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 285-35,
Power of attorney, was repealed 4-10-2001 by Ord. No. 01-12.
A.
Each person applying for a certificate of compliance
shall fully complete the limousine license application form available
at the Borough Clerk's office.
B.
A copy of the bill of sale for each limousine to be
operated on the streets of Paramus shall be filed with the application
for a certificate of compliance.
C.
A copy of the vehicle registration shall be provided
to the Borough Clerk within 48 hours of the vehicle's registration
with the Division of Motor Vehicles.
[Amended 10-15-2002 by Ord. No. 02-27]
A fee of $50 per vehicle shall be paid to the
Borough Clerk and shall accompany all applications for certificates
of compliance.
A.
The Borough Clerk shall issue a certificate of compliance
to the owner who has fulfilled the terms and provisions of this Part
2.
B.
Nothing in this code shall preclude full compliance
with the laws of the State of New Jersey, including N.J.S.A. 48:16-13
et seq.
C.
Each applicant for a certificate of compliance shall
also be responsible for registering each vehicle with the Director
of the Division of Motor Vehicles as set forth in N.J.S.A. 39:3-19.
Every limousine license shall expire on the
first day of January following the date of issuance thereof.
