[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township
of Chester as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 9-2-1997[1]]
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Editor's Note: The preamble to this ordinance identified
the Morris County 4-H Association as an association organized for
the purpose of holding agricultural fairs and exhibitions.
It is determined and declared that the following described property
is used as a place where the above-mentioned approved association
holds an agricultural fair and exhibition in the Township of Chester,
County of Morris, State of New Jersey: Chubb Park, Route 24, Chester,
New Jersey.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation
to own or operate within this municipality any amusement games as
said terms are defined by the Amusement Games Licensing Law (Chapter
109 of the Laws of 1959) and amended by Chapter 103 of the Laws of
1961[1]) without first having obtained a license from the Township
Council of the Township of Chester. Said license shall be issued pursuant
to and subject to the provisions of the Amusement Games Licensing
Law, as amended, and rules and regulations issued thereunder.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 5:8-100 et seq.
Each applicant for such a license shall file with the Municipal
Clerk a written application of such form as may be prescribed by the
Amusement Games Licensing Law, as amended, and also in accordance
with rules and regulations which may now or hereafter be promulgated
by the Amusement Games Control Commissioner.
The fee for each municipal license shall be $5.
Each applicant and applicant employee shall be fingerprinted,
registered and issued identification cards under the rules and regulations
promulgated by the Amusement Games Control Commissioner.
Amusement games can be conducted only during that part of the
year when there is conducted in the Township of Chester an agricultural
fair and exhibition by an association organized for the purpose of
holding the same and which is approved by the State Department of
Agriculture for participation in any or all state-sponsored programs
relative to the promotion of agriculture and the advancement of agricultural
interests in this state.
On the days set forth in § 60-6 of this chapter, amusement games can be conducted from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. on the following day.
In the event that any licensee shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter or the Amusement Games Licensing Law or the rules
and regulations promulgated by the State Amusement Games Control Commissioner
or the terms of such license, such licensee shall be a disorderly
person and, if convicted as such, shall, in addition to suffering
any other penalties which may be imposed, forfeit any license issued
to said licensee under this chapter.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions
of this chapter shall be subject to a penalty not to exceed $200 or
imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or both, and the same shall be
in addition to the powers of suspension or revocation of any such
license provided for herein by the governing body.
