[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners (now the
Council) of the City of Perth Amboy 1-17-40 as Ord.
No. C-267. Sections 299-2 and 299-8 amended at time
of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions. Other amendments
noted where applicable.]
Hereafter no person, firm or corporation shall conduct or carry
in their place of business any mechanical machines for the production
of music, including Victrolas, orchestrelles, player pianos, music
vending machines and other such instruments, whether electrically
operated or not, operated, maintained or used in any public or quasi-public
place or in any building, store or other place wherein the public
are invited or wherein the public may enter, and particularly, but
not by way of limitation, all coin-operated music vending machines,
Victrolas, orchestrelles or player pianos operated, maintained or
used as aforesaid, unless such person, firm or corporation shall first
have obtained a license for that purpose from the Council of the City
of Perth Amboy.
A license fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be charged
per year for one (1) location for each mechanical machine for the
production of music, Victrola, orchestrelle, player piano, music vending
machine as hereinbefore described. Such license shall be issued as
of the calendar year and shall be effective for such period of time.
In case of a license issued on or after August 1 of each year hereafter,
only one-half (1/2) of the above fee shall be paid.
Each music vending machine shall have a metal license tag, issued
by the City of Perth Amboy, bearing a serial number, posted and attached
in a conspicuous place on such music vending machine.
An application in writing shall be filed with the City Clerk
for any new license or renewal thereof, stating the full name of the
applicant, description of the place of business to be licensed and
the location of such mechanical machines for the production of music
as herein more fully set forth.
An application in writing shall be filed with the Chief of Police
of the City of Perth Amboy for the transfer or removal of any mechanical
machine for the production of music, as herein more fully set forth,
from place to place, licensed under the provisions hereof, and the
transfer of any license from one place to another shall state the
full name of the applicant, description of his place of business and
the proposed location of such mechanical machines for the production
of music as herein more fully set forth. The Chief of Police is hereby
authorized to issue a written authority for any such change or transfer.
A license may be refused or revoked when required by public
interest.
The Chief of Police shall have supervision over all licensed
places of such mechanical machines for the production of music as
herein more fully set forth, and the members of the Perth Amboy Police
Department shall report from time to time all violations of this chapter.
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this
chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of
not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not
more than ninety (90) days, or both, and each day that this chapter
is violated shall be considered a separate and distinct offense.
