[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Middlesex
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 4-10-1963 by Ord.
No. 364]
It shall be unlawful for any person, whether as principal or agent,
clerk or employee, either for himself or any other person, or for any body
corporate, or as an officer of any corporation or otherwise to engage in the
operation of an establishment where one or more machines or devices offered
for public use which, upon insertion of a coin, coins or token or by other
means, provide self-service laundries or dry-cleaning facilities without first
having applied for and obtained a permit from the Board of Health of this
municipality so to do, nor without complying with any and all of the provisions
of the Coin-operated Dry Cleaning Establishments Code of New Jersey (1962)
as adopted or amended by said Board, the provisions whereof are incorporated
herein by reference.
A.
The fees for permits as required by § 256-1 above, for the purpose of regulation and control, to be paid annually to this municipality, are hereby fixed at $25 per year.
B.
All permits issued under authority of this article shall
expire on the first day of May of each year. Permit fees shall be paid to
the Board of Health.
Application for and issuance of the permits referred to in § 256-1 above shall be made in conformity with the provisions of the aforementioned Coin-operated Dry Cleaning Establishment Code of New Jersey (1962) as adopted or amended by the Board of Health of this municipality. Such permits are not transferable.
For good cause shown, permits issued under authority of this article
may be suspended, revoked or reinstated by the Board of Health of this municipality,
provided, however, that no such permit may be suspended or revoked except
upon not less than two days' written notice thereof given to the permittee,
which notice shall set forth specifically the grounds upon which the Board
of Health shall consider the matter of any proposed suspension or revocation
of permit and shall provide reasonable opportunity to the permittee for public
hearing thereon.
No provision of this article shall be applied so as to impose any unlawful
burden on either interstate commerce or any activity of the state or federal
government.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions
of this article shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not to exceed
$200 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 90 days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each violation of any of the provisions
of this article, and each day the same is violated, shall be deemed and taken
to be a separate and distinct offense.
[Adopted 5-27-1964 by Ord.
No. 385]
On and after the adoption of this article it shall be unlawful for any
person, whether individual or corporate, to engage in the operation of an
establishment where one or more machines or devices offered for public use
which, upon insertion of a coin, coins or token or by other means, provides
self-service laundries or dry-cleaning facilities, unless there shall be employed
within such establishment between the hours of 12:00 midnight of any day and
6:00 a.m. of the following day a supervisory attendant thereof, which said
supervisory attendant shall be charged with the duty of maintaining the good
order of the premises, or preventing any congregation of nonpatrons within
the premises, of maintaining the general cleanliness of the premises and of
providing for appropriate disposal of all litter and debris in and about the
premises, and any failure of such supervisory attendant to discharge any or
all of the duties here imposed upon him shall not relieve the owner or operator
of such establishment from responsibility or liability therein but such owner
or operator, for the purpose of this article, shall be deemed directly responsible
for such failure on the part of such supervisory attendant.
Any parking area for vehicles used by patrons of any public self-service
laundries or dry-cleaning establishments shall, between the hours of dusk
and dawn or within such other limited time during said period when the said
establishment shall be in operation, shall have adequate lighting of such
parking area so as to provide a clear view of the said parking area during
all of such time. Said lighting arrangements, however, shall be so constructed
as to not cast glare or cause similar nuisance to adjoining property owners.
No loitering of any kind by persons not patrons of such establishment
shall be permitted at any time.
The provisions of this article shall be deemed to be in addition to
and not in limitation of the provisions of any or all other ordinances governing
and assuring the peace and privacy of the citizens of the Borough of Middlesex.
Any violation of the provisions of this article shall be deemed good cause authorizing the suspension or revocation of any permit for the operation of any such establishment as such permit may be issued under the provision of Article I, Permits, of this chapter of the Borough of Middlesex, mentioned and set forth herein.
