No person or persons, firm or corporation shall maintain or operate
a pool, billiard or snooker table in any public room or place where a charge
is made for the use of the same, and no person or persons, firm or corporation
shall maintain, operate, conduct or pursue the business or occupation of keeping
any public room or place wherein games commonly known as "pool" or "billiards"
are played without having first obtained a license therefor from the Mayor
and Council of the Borough of Northvale as hereinafter provided.
An application for the license in §
144-1 hereof shall be filed with the Borough Clerk, in writing, and shall contain the following information:
A. The name and address of the applicant.
B. In the case of a partnership, it shall state the names
and addresses of all partners.
C. In the case of a corporation, it shall state the names
and addresses of officers, directors and stockholders presently holding stock
and the names and addresses of all persons who have, for six months prior
to the date of said application, been officers, directors or stockholders.
D. Whether or not any person or persons named in the application
have ever been convicted of a violation of any federal, state or municipal
law.
E. The location of the premises to be licensed.
F. The number of pool, billiard or snooker tables to be
located on the premises to be licensed.
All said licenses shall be issued by the Borough Clerk only after a
resolution of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Northvale shall have
been adopted approving said application and only after the payment of the
license fees hereinafter set forth. The license shall be from September 1
of the year of issuance until August 31 of the next ensuing year. Licenses
may be issued for a period of less than a year, but all licenses shall expire
on August 31 of each year.
In the event that any license is suspended or revoked, the licensee
shall not be permitted the return of any portion of the license fee.
Every establishment wherein the primary function of said establishment
is the conduct or operation of a pool or billiard room shall be closed between
the hours of 12:00 midnight and 10:00 a.m. on weekdays and from 1:00 a.m.
to 1:00 p.m. on Sundays. In any establishment wherein the operation of a table
or tables is not the primary function of said business and the table or tables
is merely an adjunct to the operation of said establishment, then and in that
event the hours of closing shall be similar to those governing all plenary
retail consumption liquor licensees in the Borough of Northvale.
No person under the age of 18 shall be permitted to play pool or billiards
in any licensed premises or to frequent, lounge, congregate or gather in such
premises unless accompanied by his or her parent or guardian, and provided
further that such person may frequent said premises without violating any
other municipal, state or federal law. Notification of the provisions of this
section shall be conspicuously posted in any establishment licensed under
this chapter.
This chapter shall not apply to any religious, charitable, benevolent
or nonprofit association or corporation which operates or maintains any pool
or billiard table solely for the recreation or amusement of its members, provided
that such organization is bona fide in character and is not intended as a
means or device for evading the terms and provisions of this chapter, nor
shall this chapter apply to the keeping of any pool or billiard table in private
residences.
The license herein described shall conspicuously be posted and displayed
in any premises licensed under this chapter.
Any person or persons, firm or corporation who or which violates any provision of this chapter shall be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
II, General Penalties. Each day such violation shall be continued shall be deemed and taken to be a separate and distinct offense.