As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
Any fixed or mobile restaurant; coffee shop; cafeteria; short-order
cafe; luncheonette; grill; tearoom; sandwich shop; soda fountain; tavern;
bar; cocktail lounge; night club; roadside stand; industrial feeding establishment;
private, public or nonprofit organization or institution routinely serving
food; catering kitchen; commissary; box lunch establishment; retail bakery;
meat market; delicatessen; grocery store; public food market or similar place
in which food or drink is prepared for retail sale or for service on the premises
or elsewhere; and any other retail eating or drinking establishment or operation
where food is served, handled or provided for the public with or without charge.
It shall be unlawful for any person or any body corporate to conduct
a retail food establishment 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 provided by
statutes and codes enacted by the State of New Jersey.
The fees for licensure of retail food establishments are hereby fixed
as follows:
A. Facilities with seating capacity from zero (0) up to
fifty (50): fifty dollars ($50.) per year.
B. Facilities with seating capacity over fifty (50): seventy-five
dollars ($75.) per year.
All such license fees shall be paid on or before January 1 of each year.
Failure to make payment by that date shall result in a late payment charge
of twenty-five dollars ($25.) in order to obtain said licensure. The Township
of Lopatcong shall not notify any required license holder to make payment
of such license fee.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.)
or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not to exceed ninety
(90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each violation of any
provisions of this chapter and each day the same is violated shall be deemed
and taken to be a separate and distinct offense.