It shall be unlawful for any person or any body
corporate to conduct a retail food establishment as defined in and
governed by N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq. first having procured a license
from the local Board of Health so to do or without complying with
any or all of the provisions concerning operation and maintenance
of the same as contained in N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq.
The fees for licenses for retail and wholesale
food establishments, such licenses to be effective from January 1
until December 31 of the current year, are hereby amended as follows:
A.
Retail and wholesale food establishments, permanent
locale: $100.
B.
Any retail food establishment engaged in the sale
of packaged food products: $50.
C.
Temporary retail food establishment: $25 for a one-day
permit and $10 additional for each consecutive day thereafter.
[Amended 5-17-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-1]
D.
Late fee of $20 after January 31 of the current year
for retail and wholesale food establishments.
E.
Late fee of $10 after January 31 of current year for
sale of packaged food products.
A.
Any license issued under the terms and provisions
of this article may be suspended or revoked by the Board of Health
of this municipality for the violation by the licensee of any provision
of this article or N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq. or whenever it shall
appear that the business, trade, calling, profession or occupation
of the person, firm or corporation to whom such license was issued
is conducted in a disorderly or improper manner or in violation of
any law of the United States, the State of New Jersey or any ordinance
of this municipality, or that the person or persons conducting the
retail food establishment is or are of an unfit character to conduct
the same, or that the purpose for which the license has been issued
is being abused to the detriment of the public or that such license
is being used for a purpose foreign to that for which the license
was issued.
B.
A license issued under the terms and provisions of
this article shall not be revoked, canceled or suspended until a hearing
thereon shall have been had by the Board of Health. Written notice
of the time and place of such hearing shall be served upon the licensee
at least three days prior to the date set for such hearing. Such notice
shall also contain a brief statement of the grounds to be relied upon
for revoking, canceling or suspending such license. Notice may be
given either by personal delivery thereof to the person to be notified
or by depositing said notice in the United States post office in a
sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed to such person to be notified
at the business address appearing upon said license. At the hearing
before the Board of Health, the person aggrieved shall have an opportunity
to answer and may thereafter be heard, and upon due consideration
and deliberation by the Board of Health, the complaint may be dismissed;
or if the Board of Health concludes that the charges have been sustained
and substantiated, it may revoke, cancel or suspend the license held
by the licensee.
C.
If any such license shall have been revoked, neither
the holder thereof nor any person acting for him, directly or indirectly,
shall be entitled to another license to carry on the same business
within the Borough unless the application for such license shall be
approved by the Board of Health.
