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Borough of Dumont, NJ
Bergen County
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[Adopted by Ord. No. 340 (Secs. 4-1 through 4-13 of the 1970 Revised Ordinances)]
No person shall have, keep, own, maintain or use, within the limits of the Borough, any billiard or pool rooms or bowling alleys as a business or for profit of any kind, unless a license is first obtained as hereinafter provided in this article.
The purpose of this article is to regulate the businesses herein mentioned in the interests of public morals, health and safety and to derive revenue by the imposition of license fees thereon.
A. 
Application for a license shall be made to the Borough Clerk on forms supplied by such Clerk. Each application shall state:
(1) 
The name of the applicant, if an individual; the names of the officers, if a corporation; and the names of the partners, if a partnership.
(2) 
The permanent home residences of all persons referred to in Subsection A(1) of this section.
(3) 
A description of the business to be licensed: if a billiard or pool room, the number of tables to be used; if a bowling alley, the number of alleys to be operated.
(4) 
A description of the building to be used.
(5) 
A resume of the business experience of the applicant or persons referred to in Subsection A(1) for the last five years.
B. 
The application shall contain blank spaces for the approval of the members of the Public Safety Committee of the Council as set forth in § 114-12.
C. 
Each application shall be accompanied by the license fee specified in § 114-15.
A. 
Upon receiving the application for a license, the Borough Clerk shall forward the application to the Council for reference by it to the Public Safety Committee for their approval or other action. Before approving the application, a majority of the members of the committee shall satisfy themselves that no moral, public safety, fire or sanitary hazard is involved and that there has been a compliance with the building, zoning, fire prevention and health ordinances of the Borough with regard to the premises in which the business is to be conducted.
B. 
No official to whom the application is submitted for approval shall delay action thereon for more than three days from the date that he receives the same.
A. 
Upon the return of the application to the Borough Clerk with the approval of a majority of the Public Safety Committee placed thereon, he shall issue a license to the applicant.
B. 
The license shall be valid for the term of one year from the date of issuance.
No license shall be issued to conduct any business specified in this article, except bowling alleys, to anyone where the place in which it is intended to conduct the business shall be below the level of the surface of the adjoining street, except that pool and billiard tables shall be permitted to be used in such places in conjunction with the operation of bowling alleys.
[Amended by Ord. No. 557]
The fees for licenses issued under this article shall be as follows:
A. 
Pool and billiard rooms, for each table per year: $5.
B. 
Bowling alleys, for each alley per year: $5.
A. 
The Borough Clerk shall not issue any renewal of a license provided by this article unless and until the Public Safety Committee shall first give their consent thereto.
B. 
No license granted under the provisions of this article shall be transferred.
It shall be the duty of the Borough Clerk to keep a record of all licenses issued under this article, and to submit a monthly report to the Council of the licenses issued and of the fees collected therefor.
A. 
The Council is hereby authorized, by motion or resolution, to make, promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations in respect to each business referred to in this article as may be advisable or necessary for the maintenance of good order thereof in the Borough. All of said rules and regulations shall be considered to be a part of the license granted under this article, and each license and licensee shall be obligated to comply with such rules and regulations. Such rules and regulations shall cover such subjects as opening and closing hours, special permission for tournaments, the number of persons who may congregate in each licensed place, and such other provisions as are not in conflict with the provisions of this article.
B. 
A copy of said rules and regulations, and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto, shall be given to each licensee.
A. 
Each licensee shall display his license in a prominent and conspicuous portion of the premises in which the business is conducted.
B. 
Whenever the business is carried on indoors, the entire interior of the room or place in which the business is conducted shall be open at all times to full public inspection by the Chief of Police or other public officer of the Borough.
C. 
No person under the age of 16 years shall be permitted to play pool or billiards in any place licensed pursuant to the terms of this article.
D. 
No games of chance, gaming, gambling, playing for money among contestants or any other such practices shall be permitted in any place where a business shall be carried on pursuant to the terms of this article.
A. 
A license may be revoked by the Council by reason of the violation of the terms of the license or of the provisions of this article, or of the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, or for the violation of any ordinance or state or federal statute or for falsification in the application for a license.
B. 
The licensee shall be granted a hearing by the Council, upon his request, prior to revocation of the license.
C. 
A license may be suspended by the Public Safety Committee, without a hearing, for a period not exceeding two weeks.
[Amended by Ord. No. 742]
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.