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Borough of Chesilhurst, NJ
Camden County
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It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, the Borough Clerk, the Mayor and Borough Council and any police officer of the Borough of Chesilhurst to examine all places of business and all persons of the Borough of Chesilhurst to determine if this chapter has been complied with and to enforce the provisions of this chapter against any person found to be violating the same. Further, it shall be their duty to require any person seen peddling, soliciting, canvassing or distributing and who is not known by such officer to be duly licensed to produce his peddler's, solicitor's, canvasser's or distributor's license, as the case may be, and to enforce the provision of this chapter against any person found to be violating the same.
No license shall be required for any person for any mere delivery in the Borough of Chesilhurst of any property purchased or acquired in good faith from such person at his regular place of business outside of the Borough where no intent by such person is shown to exist to evade the provisions of this chapter.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Chesilhurst may authorize the issuance of special permits, without the payment of any license fee or other charge therefor, to any public, charitable, educational, literary, fraternal, or religious organization, having its location in the Borough of Chesilhurst for the conduct or operation of a temporary nonprofit enterprise for a public, charitable, educational, literary, fraternal or religious purpose. The applicant, however, shall submit the usual application form in the manner as hereinbefore required and shall operate, if granted a permit, in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
Any permit or license granted or issued pursuant to this chapter may be revoked by the Borough Council after notice and hearing for any of the following causes:
A. 
Any fraud, misrepresentation or false statement made in connection with the selling of goods, wares or merchandise;
B. 
Any fraud, misrepresentation or false statement contained in the application for license;
C. 
Any violation of this chapter;
D. 
Any conviction of the licensee of any felony or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude;
E. 
Conducting the business licensed under this chapter through application himself or any of his agents, servants or employees in any unlawful manner or in such a manner as to constitute a breach of the peace or to constitute a menace to the health, safety or general welfare of the public.
Any violation of this chapter shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment for a period not exceeding 90 days and/or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days.
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Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).