[Adopted 3-15-1984 as Ch. 8, Art. III, of the 1970 Revised Ordinances]
A. 
No person shall drink, imbibe or consume any alcoholic beverage upon any portion of lawn or other public grounds within the Borough, including but not limited to public places, playgrounds and municipal grounds surrounding municipal buildings and public streets in the Borough of Carteret. The possession by any person of an open container of any alcoholic beverage in any of the aforementioned public places shall constitute a prima facie violation of this subsection that any person so possessing an open container of any alcoholic beverage in any of the aforementioned public places is presumed to have consumed said alcoholic beverage at the place of possession.
B. 
No person shall be drunk or disorderly or in a state of intoxication in or upon any street, highway, thoroughfare or other public place within the Borough of Carteret.
[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.[1]
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 24:21-1 et seq.
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.