[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Prospect Park 9-16-1948 (Ch. 81 of the 1974 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 11-11-1974]
No person, firm, partnership or corporation
shall engage in the sale of new or used automobiles or of trailers
or mobile homes in the Borough of Prospect Park without first having
secured a license from the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Prospect
Park as hereinafter provided.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A vehicle used or so constructed as to permit its being used
as a licensed conveyance upon the public streets or highways and constructed
in such a manner as will permit its occupancy as a place of day-to-day
habitation for one or more persons. The term shall also include automobile
trailers, mobile homes, house trailers and trailer coaches used as
offices, residences or accessory structures for storage purposes for
both residential and nonresidential uses.
[Amended 11-11-1974]
Application for the license required by this
chapter shall be made in writing to the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Prospect Park and shall contain the following information:
A.
The full name, age and residence of the applicant,
or if the applicant is other than an individual, then the names, ages
and residences of members of the partnership or officers of the corporation
and the location of its principal office.
B.
A description of the site upon which the business
is to be conducted.
C.
The type of shop the applicant is to maintain and
whether it is equipped to service and repair the makes of cars or
trailers which the applicant proposes to sell.
D.
Such other reasonable and pertinent information as
the Mayor and Council by resolution may from time to time require.
Upon receipt of said application, the Mayor
and Council shall set a time for a hearing on said application, and
the applicant shall notify all property owners within a radius of
200 feet of the proposed site of the time and place fixed for said
hearing.
[Amended 11-11-1974]
After said hearing, the Mayor and Council may
issue a license, subject to the following conditions:
A.
No license shall be issued to any applicant unless
he has shop facilities and equipment to repair and service satisfactorily
the types of automobiles or trailers he proposes to sell, which shop
facilities and equipment shall be in the charge of a competent mechanic.
B.
No holder of a license shall keep open his place of
business on the first day of the week, commonly called "Sunday," or
on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Veterans
Day, Thanksgiving or Christmas, nor shall any such place of business
open after 8:00 p.m.
C.
The premises on which the business is to be conducted
shall be kept neat and orderly at all times, and no automobile, trailer
or mobile home displayed thereon shall be parked closer than 10 feet
to the lot lines of the property.
D.
All cars, trailers or mobile homes displayed on said
premises shall be parked not closer than three feet to each other,
and no signs shall be erected advertising the sale of such automobiles,
trailers or mobile homes within 10 feet of the sidewalk line fronting
the lot upon which said display is maintained.
E.
Every licensee shall keep at the place of business
a record of the purchase and sale of all automobiles, trailers or
mobile homes, which records are to be kept up-to-date and legibly
written in the English language, and all such records shall be open
to the inspection of the Chief of Police or any member of the Police
Department designated by the Chief for said purpose.
F.
The annual license fee for the aforesaid license shall
be $50 and the licensing period shall run from January 1 to December
31 of the year for which the license is issued.
G.
Licenses issued hereunder shall not be transferable
and may be revoked for just cause after hearing by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Prospect Park.
