[Adopted 5-22-1944, as amended 12-12-1949 by Ord. No. 179; 4-28-1952 by Ord. No. 223; 3-8-1969 by Ord. No. 469]
No person, copartnership or corporation shall engage in or conduct within the limits of said Township any business or commercial enterprise hereinafter in this section mentioned or indicated or occupy or use for such purpose any establishment, building, structure, premises or place within the limits of said Township without first obtaining from said Township a license therefor in accordance with the terms and provisions of this article and paying to said Township the license fee or fees therefor herein specified, namely:
Business or Activity
Annual Fee
Billiard and/or poolrooms
Equipped with not more than 3 tables
$ 50
Additional for each playing table in excess of 3
Bowling alleys
$15
Equipped with not more than 10 alleys
$60
Additional for each alley in excess of 10
[Amended 2-13-1984 by Ord. No. 1193]
$5
Dance halls, public
$150
Garbage collection and transportation
$100
Golf courses, miniature
$50
Hiring out of riding horses
$150
Ice-skating rinks
$150
Junkyards
Motor vehicle junkyard (other than a motor vehicle junkyard subject to license by Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the State of New Jersey)
$250
Junkyards other than motor vehicle junkyards
$100
Riding academies
$150
Rollerskating rinks
$150
Theater, moving-picture
$100
Each of the foregoing license classifications includes the business or commercial enterprise denoted or implied by the classification and also the establishment building, structure, premises or place in or at which the business or commercial enterprise is engaged in or conducted.
[Amended 3-13-1989 by Ord. No. 1463-89]
The Township Clerk of said Township be and he is hereby authorized to issue, in the name of said Township, and to sign all licenses provided for in this article and to receive, for the account of said Township, the respective license fees therefor; every such license shall be serially numbered, shall bear the date of issuance and indicate the date of expiration, shall designate the person, copartnership or corporation to whom or to which such license is issued, shall describe the business or commercial enterprise covered thereby and shall designate the particular establishment, building, structure, premises or place to which the license applies; and such licenses shall not be assignable or transferable without the prior written consent of said Township authorized by the Township Council.
[Amended 3-13-1989 by Ord. No. 1463-89]
All license fees received hereunder by the Township Clerk shall be paid over by him forthwith to the Township Treasurer, who shall keep a separate account thereof and shall deposit all such license fees in the name and for the account of the Township in such depositary as shall have been designated by the Township Council; provided, however, that the Township Clerk shall keep a record of the essential details of all licenses that shall be issued.
Each and every license issued under the authority of this article that shall describe or designate any establishment, building, structure, premises or place shall at all times be prominently displayed at or near the entrance thereto; and each and every person, copartnership or corporation to whom or to which a license shall be issued shall exhibit such license from time to time, for inspection, upon the request of the Township Clerk of said Township or upon the request of any police officer thereof.
No person shall aid or assist or act as proprietor, manager, employee, clerk or otherwise in or about the conduct of any business or commercial enterprise or in the use of any establishment, building, structure, premises or place for which a license is required under the terms of this article and for which a proper license shall not have been issued and be in effect in accordance with the terms and provisions hereof.
[Amended 3-13-1989 by Ord. No. 1463-89]
Any license issued under the authority of this article may be revoked and annulled by the Township Council of said Township, after hearing upon notice, in the event that the person, copartnership or corporation to whom or to which such license shall have been issued:
A. 
Shall engage in or permit any unlawful conduct in, on or about the establishment, building, structure, premises or place to which such license applies;
B. 
Shall conduct the business or commercial enterprise for which such license shall have been issued, or shall use or occupy or permit to be used or occupied the establishment, building, structure, premises or place to which such license applied, in such manner as to create any public or private nuisance; or
C. 
Shall permit the establishment, building, structure, premises or place to which such license applies to be or become, wholly or in part, unsanitary or unsafe for persons lawfully entering and making use of the same or any part thereof.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former § 101-8, Violations and penalties, as amended, which section immediately followed this section, was repealed 3-20-2006 by Ord. No. 5-2006. See now Ch. 66, Penalties for Code Violations.