No person shall pursue the business or occupation
of keeping any billiard room or poolroom in the township until the
proprietor thereof shall have first obtained from the Township Committee
a license to carry on and conduct the same and shall have paid the
required license fee.
In addition to any other information required,
the application for a pool- or billiard room license shall state the
number of tables to be licensed.
All licenses under this chapter shall be granted
by the Township Committee and issued by the Township Clerk/Administrator.
All such licenses shall be valid from February 1 of the year in which
the license is issued until January 3 of the following year, unless
sooner revoked.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord.
No. 1992-6; 12-5-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-17]
Applicable fees are detailed in the universal fee chart located in §
18-2, reference number 35, of the Code of the Township of Lumberton.
A minor under the age of 18 years shall under
no circumstances frequent, loiter, go or remain in any hall licensed
under this chapter at any time unless he is on some lawful errand
and sent under the direction, consent and knowledge of the parent,
guardian or other person having lawful custody of him. It shall be
unlawful for the proprietor of any hall so licensed to allow or permit
any minor to frequent, loiter or remain within the hall in violation
of this section.
Every place of business licensed under this
chapter shall not open before 9:00 a.m. and shall be closed at 1:00
a.m. every day, except Saturday, when it shall close at 12:00 midnight
and remain closed until the following Monday morning.
[Added 8-3-1992 by Ord.
No. 1992-6; amended 12-5-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-19]
Any person, firm, corporation, association or legal party whatsoever who shall violate, or authorize or procure a violation, or cause to be violated, any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided under §
1-11 governing general penalty provisions. If the state requires, limits or expands potential minimum or maximum penalties in contradiction to this chapter, state law shall apply.