[Amended 12-1-2016 by Ord. No. 16-18]
The restaurants, dining rooms or other public places where food
and liquid refreshments are served to the general public and where
the consumption of alcohol may be permitted pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:33-27
shall be limited to those restaurants serving hot food prepared on
premises and served by wait staff to a minimum of 40 seats open to
the general public.
All parking areas owned or maintained by any
licensee adjacent to the licensed premises shall, during business
hours, be sufficiently illuminated so that persons occupying parked
motor vehicles on said premises may be readily visible. Every licensee
shall maintain good order in said parking areas and shall permit no
disorderly conduct of any kind.
No licensee shall allow, permit or suffer in
or upon the licensed premises any disturbances, lewdness, immoral
activities, brawls or unnecessary noises or allow, permit or suffer
the licensed place of business to be conducted in such a manner as
to become a nuisance.
[Added 6-11-1991 by Ord. No. 91-23]
A. No licensee shall knowingly or negligently allow,
permit or suffer in or upon the licensed premises any person distributing
or possessing with the intent to distribute any controlled dangerous
substance as defined in Schedules I through V as set forth in Sections
5 through 8 of P.L. 1970, c. 226, and in section 4 of P.L. 1971, c.
3.
B. Any licensee found in violation of this section shall
be subject to a maximum fine of $500, a suspension of its license
for a period not to exceed six months, or both, for the first offense.
C. Any licensee found in violation of this section a
second time shall be subject to a maximum fine of $1,000, a suspension
of its license for a period not to exceed one year, or both.
D. Any licensee found in violation of this section a
third time shall be subject to a revocation of its license and a fine
not to exceed $2,500.
All jukeboxes, radios, televisions, coin-operated
mechanical or electrical devices, bands and orchestras shall not be
permitted by the licensee to play or be played too loudly so as to
constitute a nuisance.
The Borough of Carteret's Police Department's
right to inspect the licensed premises and to enter the same at all
times without a search warrant as provided for by the laws of the
State of New Jersey is hereby specifically reserved (N.J.A.C. 13:2-23.29).
The foregoing prohibitions shall not apply to
certain specific areas designated in writing by the Recreation Commission
or to those persons or groups of persons who are issued a special
permit by the Superintendent of Recreation for consumption of alcoholic
beverages, which permit shall designate the function, number of persons,
area of activity and hours of validity of said permit.
[Amended 4-19-1990 by Ord. No. 90-16]
The penalties set forth in §
1-17 of this Code shall apply to any violations of this article and shall be in addition to any and all penalties prescribed by and set forth in N.J.S.A. Title 33.