[HISTORY: Adopted by the Bloomfield Board
of Health as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 9-14-2005]
It shall be unlawful for any person or any body
corporate to conduct public establishments, as listed and defined
in the State Sanitary Code of New Jersey, without first having procured
an annual license from the local Board of Health so to do so and without
complying with any or all of the provisions concerning operation and
maintenance of the same as contained in the aforementioned Sanitary
Code of New Jersey.
A.
The annual fees for licenses of the public establishments
are hereby fixed as follows:
(1)
Beauty parlors, nail salons and barbershops shall
be assessed as follows:
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
(4)
Nursery schools: $100.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
(5)
Day-care centers: $100.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
(6)
Nursing homes: $100.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
(7)
Boarding homes: $100.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
(8)
License
to operate or conduct a massage and/or bodywork therapy establishment:
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
B.
The licenses issued aforesaid shall be effective for
the calendar year, expiring on the 31st day of December of the year
of issue, and may be renewable for succeeding calendar years thereafter.
The fee for license renewals shall be due and payable on or before
the first day of February in the year of renewal.
C.
Late fee: $50 after February 1.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
A.
Any license issued under the terms and provisions
of this article may be suspended or revoked by the Board of Health
of this municipality for the violation by the licensee of any provision
of this article or of the State Sanitary Code of New Jersey or whenever
it shall appear that the business, trade, calling, profession or occupation
of the person, firm or corporation to whom such license was issued
is conducted in a disorderly or improper manner or in violation of
any law of the United States, the State of New Jersey or any ordinance
of this municipality or that the person or persons conducting the
public establishment is of an unfit character to conduct the same
or that the purpose for which the license has been issued is being
abused to the detriment of the public or is being used for a purpose
foreign to that for which the license was issued.
B.
A license issued under the terms and provisions of
this article shall not be revoked, canceled or suspended until a hearing
thereon shall have been had by the Board of Health. Written notice
of the time and place of such hearing shall be served upon the licensee
at least three days prior to the date set for such hearing. Such notice
shall also contain a brief statement of the grounds to be relied upon
for revoking, canceling or suspending such license. Notice may be
given either by personal delivery thereof to the person to be notified
or be deposited in the United States post office in a sealed envelope,
postage prepaid, addressed to such person to be notified at the business
address appearing upon said license. At the hearing before the Board
of Health, the person aggrieved shall have an opportunity to answer
and may thereafter be heard, and, upon due consideration and deliberation
by the Board of Health, the complaint may be dismissed, or, if the
Board of Health concludes that the charges have been sustained and
substantiated, it may revoke, cancel or suspend the license held by
the licensee.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
If any such license shall have been revoked,
neither the holder thereof nor any person acting for them, directly
or indirectly, shall be entitled to another license to carry on the
same business within the Township unless the application for such
license shall be approved by the Board of Health.
No provision of this article shall be applied
so as to impose any unlawful burden on either interstate commerce
or any activity of the state or federal government.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 575, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. V)]
Any person, firm or corporation who or which
shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction,
be punished by a fine of not to exceed $500, and each violation of
any of the provisions of this article and each day the same is violated
shall be deemed and taken to be a separate and distinct offense.
This article is being enacted pursuant to N.J.S.A.
40:52-1.
The Board of Health of the Township of Bloomfield
shall be responsible for the administration and enforcement of this
article.
