[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of
Ridley 3-19-1975 as Ch. 131 of the 1975 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 299.
Pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 326 of 1968 of the General Assembly,[1] in any case where the principal place of business of any taxicab
company is located in the Township of Ridley, no person shall engage in the
business of driving a taxicab or other passenger motor vehicle for hire within
the said Township without first having secured from the Captain of Police
of the Township a license so to do. Such license shall be for a period of
three months from the date of issuance.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 25291 et seq.
Any person desiring to secure such license shall make application to
the Captain of Police of the Township of Ridley upon forms prescribed and
furnished by such Captain of Police, which said forms shall be of such nature
and contents as to disclose the necessary information to enable the Captain
of Police to determine the moral character and general fitness of the applicant
to engage in such occupation. It shall be the duty of the Captain of Police
to make diligent and careful inquiry to determine whether or not said applicant
is of good character and fitness to engage in such occupation.
No person shall be licensed to engage in such business unless he shows,
to the satisfaction of the Captain of Police of the Township of Ridley, that
he is of good moral character and general fitness to engage in such occupation
and that he has not been convicted of any felony at all or of any misdemeanor
of such nature and character as to render him unfit to engage in such occupation.
Every applicant for such license shall furnish with his application
two photographs, being fair likenesses, upon which shall be endorsed such
information prescribed by the Captain of Police as may be necessary for the
identification of the said applicant. One of said photographs shall be retained
by the Captain of Police and one shall be attached to a card of identification
included in or issued with the license hereinabove provided for, which license
and card of identification shall be produced upon request of the Captain of
Police or any other police officer of the commonwealth. Said identification
card shall have space provided thereon upon which, in case the holder thereof
is arrested for any offense, it shall be the duty of any District Justice
before whom said holder shall appear to write the date of such arrest, the
charge upon which said arrest shall have been made and the disposition made
of the case by said District Justice, which notation on said card shall be
signed by such District Justice.
Upon the third conviction for any offense of the holder of any such
license and identification card, it shall be the duty of the Captain of Police
issuing the same, upon information thereof coming to his attention, immediately
to revoke the said license and to require the surrender of the same and the
identification card in connection therewith for cancellation.
Every applicant for a license shall submit with his application a certified
check or money order made payable to the Township of Ridley in the sum as
set from time to time by resolution of the Board of Commissioners, together
with a corporate surety bond in the sum as set from time to time by resolution
of the Board of Commissioners having as surety thereon a company legally authorized
to do business in this commonwealth, conditioned for the payment of any damages
accruing to any person by reason of any act of such licensed driver becoming
unfit to engage in such occupation.
This chapter shall in no manner alter, change or affect any existing
requirement of the law with reference to securing certificates of public convenience
from the Public Utility Commission or otherwise; nor shall this chapter in
any manner whatsoever be construed to affect any provision of any existing
law governing the licensing of motor vehicles.
Any person, firm or corporation who violates any of the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon conviction before a District Justice, be sentenced
to pay a fine not exceeding $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, and in default
of payment of such fine and costs shall be imprisoned for a period not to
exceed 30 days. Each day such a violation is committed or permitted to continue
shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder.
