Borough of Middlesex, NJ
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2023-10-10
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 125 Amusement Games
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Background Checks, Criminal History Record
- Ch 6 Bylaws of Council
- Ch 10 Claims, Payment of
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 14 Cooperative Pricing
- Ch 18 Court, Municipal
- Ch 19 Culture and Heritage Committee
- Ch 23 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 26 Board, Committee, and Commission Meeting Attendance
- Ch 28 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Environmental Commission
- Ch 36 Emergency Management
- Ch 40 Fire Department
- Ch 44 Flood Control Commission
- Ch 48 Health, Board of
- Ch 52 Housing and Community Development Advisory Committee
- Ch 56 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 60 Map, Official
- Ch 62 Municipal Alliance Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
- Ch 64 Mutual Assistance
- Ch 68 Officers and Employees
- Ch 72 Payroll Procedures
- Ch 76 Pensions
- Ch 80 Police Department
- Ch 84 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 86 Filming
- Ch 88 Purchasing Department
- Ch 92 Department of Public Recreation and Senior and Disabled Services
- Ch 93 Recreation and Parks Improvement Committees
- Ch 94 Redevelopment Committee
- Ch 96 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 100 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 103 Traffic Safety Committee
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 108 Adult Uses and Entertainment
- Ch 112 Advertising Materials
- Ch 117 Alarm Devices and False Alarms
- Ch 121 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 125 Amusement Games
- § 125-1 License required.
- § 125-2 Fees.
- § 125-3 Number of machines restricted.
- § 125-4 Purpose.
- § 125-5 Allowing operation of machines by minors.
- § 125-6 Gambling prohibited.
- § 125-7 Violations and penalties.
- § 125-8 Waiver of provisions.
- Ch 129 Animals
- Ch 150 Carnivals
- Ch 154 Certificates, Birth, Death and Marriage
- Ch 158 Certificates, Sale/Lease
- Ch 168 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 172 (Reserved)
- Ch 176 Conversions, Condominium and Cooperative
- Ch 182 Donation Bins
- Ch 186 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 195 Fees
- Ch 200 Festivals
- Ch 204 Fiber Optic Cables, Installation of
- Ch 208 Firearms and Ammunition, Sale of
- Ch 212 Fire Detection Systems
- Ch 216 Fire Lanes
- Ch 220 Fire Prevention
- Ch 224 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 240 Housing Standards
- Ch 244 Junkyards and Junk Dealers
- Ch 248 Land Development
- Ch 252 Landfills
- Ch 254 Landscaping Services
- Ch 256 Laundries
- Ch 260 Library
- Ch 264 Littering
- Ch 265 Limousines
- Ch 268 Loitering
- Ch 272 Massage and Bodywork Therapy Establishments
- Ch 276 Meat, Retail Sale of
- Ch 280 Minibikes
- Ch 284 Newspaper Vending Machines
- Ch 288 Numbering of Buildings and Lots
- Ch 292 Parades and Other Assemblies
- Ch 296 Parking, Handicapped
- Ch 301 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 305 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 309 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 313 Poolrooms and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 315 Precious Metals and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 316 Prohibited Use of Borough Land
- Ch 317 Property Maintenance
- Ch 318 Property, Abandoned
- Ch 319 Rapid-Entry Key System
- Ch 320 Registration, Landlord
- Ch 321 Recreational Cannabis Retailing
- Ch 323 (Reserved)
- Ch 325 Riparian Zones
- Ch 327 Sales, Seasonal
- Ch 329 Schools
- Ch 332 Sewers
- Ch 334 (Reserved)
- Ch 336 Shopping Centers
- Ch 343 Smoking
- Ch 344 Smoking: Cannabis Limitations
- Ch 347 Soil Removal, Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 351 Solid Waste
- Ch 352 Steep Slopes
- Ch 354 Storm Drains
- Ch 355 Stormwater Control
- Ch 359 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 363 Structures, Dangerous
- Ch 367 Swimming Pool, Municipal
- Ch 371 Tattooing
- Ch 375 Taxation
- Ch 379 Taxicabs
- Ch 383 Tobacco, Sale of
- Ch 387 Towing
- Ch 391 Trailers and Campgrounds
- Ch 395 Trees
- Ch 399 Used Cars, Sale of
- Ch 403 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 407 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 414 Water
- Ch 420 Zoning
- Part III, Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 425 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 427 Barbershops, Beauty Parlors and Nail Salons
- Ch 429 Bylaws of Board of Health
- Ch 434 Gas and Oil Exploration
- Ch 436 Housing Standards
- Ch 438 Officers and Employees
- Ch 440 Rabies Control
- Ch 442 Radioactive Materials
- Ch 443 Retail Food Establishments
- Ch 446 Sanitary Regulations
- Ch 450 Swimming Pools, Public
- Ch 456 Water Supplies, Individual and Semipublic
- Appendix
- Ch A457 Franchises
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Middlesex 12-4-1935 by Ord. No. 83. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Amended 12-29-1947 by Ord. No. 157; 12-8-1981 by Ord. No. 919]
Hereafter, no automatic amusement game of the
type commonly known as "bagatelle," "baseball" or "pin" amusement
games or video-type games or computer-type games, such as asteroids,
space invaders and other similar games, or any other similar games
or devices, and particularly, but not by way of limitation, any coin-operated
automatic game, machine or device of the type heretofore mentioned,
and no amusement boxes commonly known as "jukeboxes" shall be installed,
operated or maintained in any public or quasipublic place or in any
building, store or other place wherein the public are invited or wherein
the public may enter, unless the owner of said game or machine has
first obtained a license for that purpose from the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Middlesex as herein provided.
[Amended 8-11-1948 by Ord. No. 162; 3-23-1976 by Ord. No. 711; 11-27-1990 by Ord. No.
1186; 7-27-2010 by Ord. No. 1773; 6-12-2018 by Ord. No. 1942; 10-25-2022 by Ord. No. 2072]
The license for the placing, operation, maintaining, or use
of such amusement devices, or machines mentioned aforesaid shall be
issued to and in the name of the proprietor of the premises where
the machine or machines are to be installed, for the period commencing
June 1 of each year to May 31 of the following year. The fee for the
issuance of said license shall be $150 for one machine (either jukebox
or amusement) and a flat fee of $350 for more than one machine (either
jukebox or amusement).
No more than five machines or devices of the
type herein mentioned shall be permitted to be used or operated in
any one place, location or premises.
This chapter is enacted for the purpose of raising
revenue and for the regulation and control of automatic amusement
games of the type commonly known as "bagatelle," "baseball" or "pin"
amusement games or similar machines or devices.
[Amended 12-29-1947 by Ord. No. 157]
Any person who shall knowingly permit a minor
under the age of 16 years to play or operate any of the machines or
devices licensed by this chapter, except for the operation of jukeboxes,
shall be punishable therefor as herein provided.
Any person who shall use or permit to be used
any of the machines or devices hereunder for the purpose of gambling
shall be deemed to be guilty of a violation of this chapter and punishable
therefor as hereinafter provided.
[Amended 12-29-1947 by Ord. No. 157]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any
of the provisions of this chapter, except for the operation of jukeboxes,
shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $200 or imprisonment in the
county jail for a period not exceeding 90 days.
[Added 4-22-1975 by Ord. No. 673]
Any and all provisions of this chapter providing for the licensing of amusement games, together with amendments thereto, which ordinance is set forth as §§ 125-1 through 125-8 above, may be waived by the Mayor and Council, by resolution, when the amusement machines are to be used on property owned or leased by the Borough of Middlesex or when the use of the machines is sponsored by the Borough of Middlesex and/or the Middlesex Recreation Commission or any other commission created by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Middlesex.
