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Borough of Oaklyn, NJ
Camden County
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[Adopted 6-12-1956 by Ord. No. 3-56)]
No person shall place or maintain or permit to be placed, operated, used or maintained in any public or quasi-public place or in any public building, store or other place wherein the public is invited or may enter, including premises used as a clubhouse or as clubrooms, within the limits of the Borough of Oaklyn, any coin-controlled automatic music device or record-playing machine without first having obtained a license for each such device or machine.
For the purpose of this article, the terms used herein shall have the meanings indicated:
COIN-CONTROLLED AUTOMATIC MUSIC DEVICE and COIN-CONTROLLED RECORD-PLAYING MACHINE
A machine, device or instrument which upon insertion of a coin or slug operates or may be operated to play music from a record or other sound- or music-making device or by any means whatsoever.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, firm, association, partnership, trustee or receiver.
[Amended 9-13-1977 by Ord. No. 13-77]
The license for the placing, operation, maintenance or use of such coin-controlled automatic music device or record-playing machine shall be issued by the Clerk of the Borough of Oaklyn to and in the name of the owner of such device or machine. All licenses hereunder shall expire on December 31 of each year. The license fee for each coin-controlled automatic music device and each coin-controlled record-playing machine shall be as provided for in Chapter 73, Fees. A separate license shall be obtained for each device or machine and shall be affixed thereto.
Applications for licenses hereunder shall be made to the Clerk of the Borough of Oaklyn upon a form furnished by the Borough of Oaklyn and shall contain the following information:
A. 
Name of applicant.
B. 
Residence of applicant.
C. 
Place of business of applicant.
D. 
Number of licenses desired.
E. 
Address or addresses where each machine or device is to be located.
No coin-controlled automatic music device or coin-controlled automatic record-playing machine shall be placed, operated, maintained or used or permitted to be placed, operated, maintained or used in the Borough of Oaklyn until the license required herein shall be affixed thereto in a conspicuous place so that the same may be easily identified. Any such device or machine which shall not have a license, as required herein, affixed thereto shall be deemed to be an unlicensed device or machine. Any person having supervision or control over any building, store or other place where the public may enter or any clubhouse or clubroom wherein any such device or machine without a license affixed thereto is operated, used or maintained shall be deemed to have permitted such unlicensed device or machine to be placed, operated, used and maintained therein in violation of the provisions of this article.
Every license issued hereunder shall be numbered and shall disclose on its face the name and post office address of the licensee to whom it is issued and the address of the establishment wherein the unlicensed device or machine shall be located.
[Amended 9-13-1977 by Ord. No. 13-77]
The holder of a license issued hereunder shall be permitted to transfer such license from any machine to any other like machine operated in the same premises for which the license is issued by removing the license from such machine and affixing it to such other machine. The holder of any license shall be permitted to transfer any license issued hereunder from a machine in any establishment to a like machine in another establishment by surrendering said license to the Clerk of the Borough of Oaklyn and obtaining a new license for such machine for the location to which the license is transferred upon payment to the Clerk of a transfer fee as provided for in Chapter 73, Fees.
[Amended 9-13-1977 by Ord. No. 13-77]
The purpose of this article is for the regulation and control of coin-controlled automatic music devices and coin-controlled record-playing machines.
[Added 9-13-1977 by Ord. No. 13-77]
This article shall not apply to any coin-controlled music devices or record-playing machines located in any property which is not operated for profit.
[Amended 9-13-1977 by Ord. No. 13-77]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.