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
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Annual Fee
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Billiard and/or poolrooms
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|
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Equipped with not more than 3 tables
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$ 50
|
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Additional for each playing table in excess
of 3
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Bowling alleys
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$15
|
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Equipped with not more than 10 alleys
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$60
|
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Additional for each alley in excess of 10 [Amended 2-13-1984 by Ord. No. 1193]
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$5
|
Dance halls, public
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$150
|
Garbage collection and transportation
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$100
|
Golf courses, miniature
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$50
|
Hiring out of riding horses
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$150
|
Ice-skating rinks
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$150
|
Junkyards
|
|
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Motor vehicle junkyard (other than a motor vehicle
junkyard subject to license by Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the
State of New Jersey)
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$250
|
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Junkyards other than motor vehicle junkyards
|
$100
|
Riding academies
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$150
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Rollerskating rinks
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$150
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Theater, moving-picture
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$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.