§ 353-1. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated:

DRIVER

Any person who drives a taxicab within this Township.

OPERATION

Of a taxicab, shall consist of transporting in such taxicab at least one but not more than nine persons, exclusive of the driver, for hire on 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. The operation of a taxicab as above described by one other than the owner shall be deemed operation by the owner thereof as well as by the person actually driving the same. The transportation of any person other than the owner or driver in a taxicab as hereinafter defined shall be prima facie evidence of operation.

OWNER

Any person in whose name title to any taxicab is registered with the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles or who appears in such record to be the conditional vendee or licensee thereof.

SENIOR CITIZEN

Any person 62 years of age or older.

STREET

Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, local, county, state or federal highway or other public roadway located within the Township, whether or not the same is an improved road.

TAXICAB

Any automobile or motor car capable of carrying up to nine passengers, exclusive of the driver, and which may commonly be referred to as a "taxi," "cab," "van" or "hack," duly licensed by the Township and engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, which is held out, announced or advertised to operate or run or which is operated and run over any of the streets within the Township of West Milford and which accepts passengers for transportation from points and places within the Township to points and places within or without the same Township; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall include autobuses or buses or designated routes, public deliveries or jitneys or such public conveyances as are by law exclusively subject to state and/or federal regulation.

TOWNSHIP

The Township of West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey.