[Adopted 11-5-1979 as §§ 5-59 to 5-68 of the 1979
Revised General Ordinances]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
LICENSEE
The person to whom a license to operate a teenage dance hall is issued
and shall include the manager in charge or control of the licensed premises
and, where the context requires, any agent or employee of the licensee.
TEENAGE DANCE HALL or LICENSED PREMISES
A place of public assemblage for persons between 14 and 20 years
of age where dancing is provided at a fixed admission charge and nonalcoholic
beverages are served, and is conducted as a place of business for profit.
No person shall conduct or engage in the business of operating a teenage
dance hall in any premises within the Township without first having obtained
a license therefor, as provided in this article, and upon payment of an annual
license fee of $200.
The Township Clerk shall promptly forward the application and accompanying
material to the Township Manager who shall refer the same to the following
officials for investigation and report:
If, after investigation and reports by the officials referred to in
the previous section, the Council is satisfied that the individuals and manager,
if any, named in the application are persons of good moral character and capable
of operating the proposed teenage dance hall in a manner consistent with the
public safety and good morals, and that all of this article's requirements
have been met and further that the pertinent provisions of the Building Code,
Fire Prevention Code and Plumbing Code that govern the Township have been fully complied with, the Council
shall authorize the Township Clerk to issue the license.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to any person conducting
or engaging in the business of providing dancing, entertainment or amusement
where admission charges are to be used exclusively for charitable, eleemosynary,
educational or religious purposes.
When the operation of any teenage dance hall, or the conduct of any
licensee, agent or employee, is so inimical to the public health, safety or
general welfare as to give rise to an emergency or to constitute a nuisance,
the Manager shall have the authority summarily to order the cessation of business
and the closing of the licensed premises or to suspend the license; or the
Council, after hearing, upon a showing of good cause for its so doing, may
revoke any license issued hereunder. During such suspension, or after any
such license shall have been revoked, the license shall be inoperative and
of no effect.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a
term not exceeding 90 days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed
on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
[Adopted by Ord. No. 13-1989 (§§ 5-73 to 5-74 of the
1979 Revised General Ordinances)]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
PARADISE DANCE
A dance held from time to time as a teen center program for teen
center participants and shall include any other term used to describe a dance
for teen center participants.
TEEN CENTER
That portion of the Monmouth Court Community Center utilized for
the teen center program.
TEEN CENTER PROGRAM
Any program planned and supervised by the Director of Youth Services
and operated by the Township of Livingston in the teen center.
Teen center participants shall pay the following fees:
A. Admission to the teen center for teen center programs
other than a paradise dance: $3.
B. Admission to teen center for a paradise dance: $5.