The short form title by which this chapter shall
be known shall be the "Motel Ordinance of the Township of Hanover."
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
MOTEL
A group of attached, semidetached or detached one- or two-story
structures consisting of individual dwelling units, each unit consisting
of a bedroom, bathroom and closet space and each having a separate
entrance leading from a parking space for the use of the unit's occupants.
The units, with the exception of the apartment of the manager or caretaker,
are designed and used exclusively or primarily to accommodate automobile
transients and have no cooking facilities. "Motel" shall include tourist
court, auto court, motor lodge and motor court hotel.
PERSON
Includes persons, partnership, firm, company, corporation,
tenant, owner, lessee, licensee and any of their agents, representatives,
servants and employees.
No person or persons shall engage in the business
of conducting a motel without first having applied for and obtained
from the Township of Hanover a license to do so. No such license shall
be issued to any person who has been convicted of a crime involving
moral turpitude within a period of five years prior to the date of
filing an application for a motel license, nor shall any such license
be issued to any corporation in which any stockholder holding 5% or
more of the stock thereof or in which any director or officer thereof
shall have been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude within
said five-year period.
Each applicant for such license shall make written
application on forms prescribed and supplied by the Township Committee
setting forth:
A. The full name, residence and post office address of
the applicant.
B. The exact location of the proposed licensed premises:
block no., lot no. and street address.
C. A description of the buildings, structures and accommodations
upon said lands, including a statement of the number of dwelling units,
the maximum number of persons who can be accommodated at any one time,
a description of the character of said buildings as to size, type
of construction and whether or not the same are fireproof and a description
of the automobile parking facilities.
D. The name and address of the owner of said lands and
buildings.
E. The name or names of persons on the licensed premises
upon whom process may be served.
F. Whether any person constituting the individual or
partnership applicant or whether the corporate applicant or any stockholder
holding 5% or more of the stock thereof or any director or officer
thereof has ever been convicted of any crime and if so the details
thereof, including the date thereof, the nature of the crime, the
court in which the conviction was entered and the punishment imposed.
G. In the case of corporate applicants, the names and
residences of all stockholders holding 5% or more of the stock thereof
and the names and residences of all directors and officers of said
corporate applicant.
Any license issued under this chapter may be
suspended or revoked for any violation of this chapter or for any
conviction of any licensee or of any stockholder holding 5% or more
of the stock thereof, or director or officer thereof, of a crime involving
moral turpitude after due notice of the charges in a hearing by the
Township Committee of the Township of Hanover, at which time the licensee
shall be afforded full opportunity to be heard.
All motels which may hereafter be constructed
in the Township of Hanover shall be subject to the following minimum
standards of design, maintenance and use, which standards shall be
deemed as supplementary to such other requirements as may be set forth
by the Township Planning Board regarding site plan approval:
A. Each dwelling unit shall consist of a sleeping room,
bathroom and closet area.
B. A sleeping room shall have a minimum floor area of
300 square feet, but in any event not less than 100 square feet for
each person for whom said unit is designed. Each sleeping room shall
have two fully screened windows on separate walls of the sleeping
room having a total area of not less than four square feet per person
and in any event not less than a total of 12 square feet.
C. A bathroom shall have a minimum of 25 square feet
and shall consist of a lavatory, toilet and bath or shower with hot
and cold water. Each bathroom shall have at least one window not less
than three square feet in size or a ventilating skylight not less
than three square feet in size.
D. It shall be the duty of the licensee to heat each
dwelling unit when occupied so that a minimum temperature of 68°
F. is maintained therein at all times when the outside temperature
is 60° F. or below.
E. Each dwelling unit shall provide sufficient artificial
lighting.
F. Each dwelling unit shall be cleaned daily and clean
towels shall be supplied daily.
G. Bed sheets and pillow cases shall be changed each
day, but if an occupant uses the same dwelling unit the bed linen
may be changed every other day.
H. The lawns, flower beds and the premises shall be maintained
in a neat and clean condition at all times.
I. All entrances, exits, driveways and parking areas
shall be lighted between sunset and sunrise.
J. Each licensee shall at all times maintain upon the
licensed premises a register consisting of consecutively numbered
pages and which shall be preserved for three years upon the licensed
premises. No person shall occupy and no licensee shall permit any
person to occupy any dwelling unit on the licensed premises unless
each person or the head of the party who is to occupy such dwelling
shall first:
(1) Display to the licensee or a duly authorized agent
of the licensee written evidence of his identity and residence.
(2) Write in the register his full name and address and
the state license or registration number of the motor vehicle conveying
him to the licensed premises.
(a)
If the registrant does not write in the register
the information herein required, it shall be the duty of the licensee
or his duly authorized agent to write in said information.
(b)
In addition to the foregoing information, the
licensee or his duly authorized agent shall write in the register
the name or number of the dwelling unit occupied by each registrant,
the date and hour of registration and the date and hour the registrant
surrenders the same.
K. Said register shall be kept and preserved by the licensee
and shall be available upon request at any hour of the day or night
to any regular or special police officer authorized by the senior
officer in charge to investigate or inspect said register.
L. It shall be the duty of the Police Department to inspect
the licensed premises from time to time at any hour of the day or
night to determine that the provisions of this chapter are being complied
with.
M. No motel or any rental space therein shall be occupied
by the same guest or guests for a consecutive period exceeding 30
days.
N. It shall be the joint and individual responsibility
of the licensee and the manager or other person designated as being
in charge of the operation of the motel to:
(1) See that the provisions of this chapter are complied
with and enforced and report promptly to the proper authorities any
violations of this chapter or any other violation of law which may
come to his attention.
(2) Report to the Board of Health all cases of persons
or animals affected with any communicable disease, on or about the
motel premises.
(3) Prevent the running loose of dogs, cats or other animals
or pets, on or about the motel premises.
(4) Maintain, in convenient places, approved by the Fire
Bureau in writing, hand fire extinguishers, in good operating condition,
of at least two-and-one-half-gallon capacity, approved by the Underwriter's
Laboratories, Inc., in the ratio of one to each three motel units.
(5) Prohibit the lighting of open fires on the premises
without written permission from the Chief of the Fire Department.
(6) Prohibit the use of any motel unit by a greater number
of occupants than that which it is designed to accommodate.
(7) Provide a central garbage and trash collection station,
as well as a central storage facility properly screened from view
and built and located as approved by the Board of Health and the Building
Official of the Township of Hanover.
Notwithstanding the provisions hereof, such
buildings shall be erected and maintained in full compliance with
any and all ordinances affecting the erection, construction and maintenance
of buildings and the appurtenances thereto and operation thereof unless
specifically modified or exempt therefrom by the terms of this chapter.
[Amended 7-11-1991 by Ord. No. 16-91]
Any person violating the provisions of this
chapter upon conviction for each and every violation thereof shall
be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in
the county jail for a period not exceeding 90 days, or both, at the
discretion of the Judge.