It shall be unlawful for any person or any body corporate to conduct a retail food establishment as defined in and governed by Chapter
12 of the State Sanitary Code without 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 the aforementioned Chapter
12 of the State Sanitary Code.
The fees for licensure of retail food establishments are hereby fixed
as follows: retail food establishment, permanent locale, $10 per year; temporary
retail food establishment, $10 per year.
Any license issued under the terms and provisions of this chapter may be suspended or revoked by the Board of Health of this municipality for the violation of the licensee of any provision of this chapter or Chapter
12 of the State Sanitary Code 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 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 is being used for a purpose foreign to that for which the license was issued.
A license issued under the terms and provisions of this chapter 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 be deposited 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.
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.
No provisions of this chapter shall be applied so as to impose any unlawful
burden on either interstate commerce or any activity of the state or federal
government.