§ 4-4.2. Definitions.

As used in this section:

CRUISING

The practice of driving about the streets of the Township within a taxicab so as to solicit passengers or to bring the presence of the taxicab to the attention of prospective passengers. A taxicab driving along the streets of this Township for any purpose other than while transporting a passenger, going to a definite designation by the most direct route in response to a call for a taxicab by a prospective passenger, or returning by the most direct route to the taxicab's home terminus after discharging a passenger, or going to or from the terminus to the driver's home by the most direct route, shall be prima facie evidence of "cruising."

DRIVER

Any person who drives a taxicab or limousine within this Township.

LICENSED

Licensed in accordance with the appropriate subsections of this section.

LIMOUSINE

Any automobile or motorcar engaged in the business of 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, provided that the term "limousine" shall not include taxicabs, hotel buses or buses employed solely in transporting schoolchildren or teachers or autobuses which are subject to preemptive jurisdiction of the New Jersey Department of Transportation and/or Board of Public Utilities and/or engage in interstate commerce in which Federal or State law preempts municipal regulation.

OPERATION OF THE TAXICAB

Consist of transporting in such taxicab one or more persons for hire along any of the streets in this Township, accepting a passenger to be transported for hire within this Township or from a point within the Township to a point outside of the Township limits, or discharging a passenger transported for hire from a point outside of the Township limits to a point within the Township limits, and shall be deemed to be the operation of a taxicab within the meaning thereof. The operation of a taxicab in any of the above-described manners by one other than the owner shall be deemed operation by the owner thereof as well as by the person actually driving. The transportation of any person other than the owner or driver in any motor vehicle bearing a sign therein or thereon using the words "taxi," "taxicab" or "cab" shall be prima facie evidence of operation.

OWNER

Any person, corporation or association whose name or title to any taxicab or limousine is registered within the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles or which appears in such records to be the conditional vendee or lessee thereof.

STREET

Any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other public roadway.

TAXICAB

Any automobile or motorcar, commonly called "taxi," engaged in the business of 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 within the Township, and which accepts passengers for transportation from points or places to points or places within or without the Township, provided that the term "taxicab" shall not include limousines, autobuses, public deliveries, jitneys and other such vehicles which are hired by charter or for a particular contract agreed upon in advance, or such public conveyance as are by law subject to State and/or Federal regulation exclusively.

Ord. No. 8-10-70; Ord. No. 0-2-73; Ord. No. 0-1-74; Ord. No. 0-32-74; 1967 Code § 71-2; Ord. No. 0.7.90 § 1