[Amended 1-8-2018 by Ord.
No. 17-45C]
A code regulating retail food establishments
and fixing penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 to 26:3-69.6 and N.J.S.A. 40:72-2 et seq.
[Amended 1-8-2018 by Ord.
No. 17-45C]
The code established and adopted by this chapter
shall be commonly known as the "Sanitation in Retail Food Establishments
and Food and Beverage Vending Machine Code, N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq."
[Amended 1-8-2018 by Ord.
No. 17-45C]
It shall be unlawful for any person or any body
corporate to conduct a retail food establishment as defined in and
governed by the Sanitation in Retail Food Establishments and Food
and Beverage Vending Machine Code, N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq. without
first having procured a license from the township 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 Sanitation
in Retail Food Establishments and Food and Beverage Vending Machine
Code, N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq..
[Amended 4-2-2004 by Ord. No. 04-09C; 1-8-2018 by Ord. No. 17-45C]
The annual fee for the licensure of retail food
establishments is hereby fixed at $50.
[Amended 1-8-2018 by Ord.
No. 17-45C]
Any license issued under the terms and provisions
of this chapter may be suspended or revoked by Long Beach Township
for the violation by the licensee of any provision of this chapter
or of the Sanitation in Retail Food Establishments and Food and Beverage
Vending Machine Code, N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq. incorporated in this
chapter, 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 Long Beach Township, or that the person
or persons conducting the retail food establishment is or are 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.
Licenses issued pursuant to this chapter shall
expire annually on June 1, and any application for renewal thereof
shall be submitted, together with the required fee, to the township,
at least 15 days before the renewal date for the license applied for.