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New Jersey Limusine Law Case Study

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When seeking transportation with a hired driver, all residents of New Jersey should be able to count on a few basic notions that ensure their safety during their hired ride from pick up to when they are dropped at their destination. Revisions that have been proposed to Atlantic City's ordinances would bring public safety safeguards that are badly needed, ensuring the safety of passengers, citywide.

Unfortunately, transportation network companies (TNCs), such as Lyft and Uber have put up resistance with regard to the well-established, common sense regulations that both limo and taxi companies have followed for decades, threatening to withdraw from the New Jersey market. This marketing ploy is filled with empty threats, as the market in Atlantic City and in New Jersey in general is much too lucrative a location for Uber to fully abandon.

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This ensures that the chauffeur doesn't have a criminal record and that your data is safe.

• Operators must undergo a physical medical assessment every 2 years to ensure the operator is fit to transport passengers for a profit.

• Operators must be screened for dangerous, controlled dangerous substances.

• Operators must be operating a clearly marked commercial vehicle.

• Operators must maintain vehicle insurance for a commercial vehicle as designated by statute to offer financial responsibly.

• Operators must be granted municipal authority to operate.

• Operators must pay state taxes to New Jersey for payroll purposes and must collect sales tax on service.

• Limousine businesses must offer worker's compensation insurance to safeguard it's employees of the TNC. The State of California just recently decided that Uber's drivers are their employees, as opposed to independent

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