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No driver shall refuse or neglect to carry any person or persons upon their request, unless previously engaged or unable or forbidden by the provisions of this article to do.

It shall be a violation of this article for any driver of a taxicab to solicit business for any hotels, motels, rooming houses, bars, taverns, restaurants, theaters and the like, or to attempt to divert patronage from one such place to another. § 97-25. Taxicab stand.

No taxicab, while waiting for employment by passengers, shall stand on any public street or space other than at or upon a taxicab stand designated or established in accordance with this article, nor shall any driver of such taxicab seek employment by repeatedly and persistently driving his or her taxicab to and fro in a short space before, or by otherwise interfering with the proper and orderly access to or egress from, any theater, hall, hotel, public resort or other place of gathering.

No driver of any taxicab shall induce any prospective passenger to employ him or her, knowingly misinforming or misleading any such passenger either as to time or place of arrival or departure of any train, motor vehicle or airplane, or as to the location of any hotel, public place or private residence, or as to the distance between any two points, nor shall such driver deceive or make false representations to any prospective passenger by conveying such passenger to any other place or over any other route than that to which such passenger may have instructed the driver to go.

Every owner shall be responsible for the operation of the vehicle for which the license has been granted regardless of the legal relationship between such owner and the driver of such vehicle.

The driver, while engaged in the operation of a taxicab, shall conduct him- or herself in a gentlemanly or gentlemanly manner, and he or she shall not use any indecent, profane or insulting language while engaged in such operation.

Every driver of a taxicab, immediately after the termination of any hiring or employment, must carefully search such taxicab for any property lost or left therein, and any such property, unless sooner claimed or delivered to the owner, shall, as soon as possible, be turned over to the Police Department.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated in N.J.S.A. 48:16-13, as amended and supplemented: "autocab," "limousine service," "person," "principal place of business," and "street." For purposes of clarification, it is noted that the definition of "limousine service" generally includes the service commonly known as "car service."