[Editor's Note: Rooming and boarding houses can only
be licensed by the State of New Jersey by virtue of NJAC 5:27. The
date of license for rooming and boarding houses shall be determined
by State law which differs from Borough dates obtained herein.]
[Ord. 6/26/56, S1]
As used in this chapter a hotel, lodging, boarding and rooming
house shall include every dwelling house and other building or structure
kept, held or used, where sleeping, lodging, boarding, or light housekeeping
rooms are offered for pay for three or more persons.
As used in this chapter:
Shall mean a house where the business of furnishing sleeping
accommodations to guests, with or without meals.
Shall mean a house where the business of accommodating roomers
is carried on in substantially the same manner as a boarding house
except that no meals are served as part of such accommodations.
Shall mean a house where the business of accommodating lodgers
is carried on in substantially the same manner as a rooming house
except that the unit rented as part of such accommodations is a furnished
apartment rather than a furnished room.
Shall mean a house where the business of keeping boarders
generally is carried on and where a furnished room and meals are regularly
served as a part of such accommodations.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S2; Ord. BH:88-3]
No building or parts of buildings shall be used as a hotel before
the person desiring such use makes an application and receives from
the secretary of the Board of Health a permit authorizing such use.
Such permit shall be issued only to persons of good moral character,
and shall not be transferable. Such annual permits shall run from
January 1 and terminate on December 31. Permits issued after January
1 shall also expire on December 31. Application for renewal of permits
shall be the same as if an original permit is applied for. Such permit
shall be signed by the secretary of the Board of Health, and shall
be posted in a prominent place in the house.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S2]
Before any permit is issued, the secretary of the Board of Health
shall submit the application, together with the plans hereinafter
referred to, to the Borough building inspector, to the health officer,
and to the Borough fire chief and shall not issue such permit until
he has received a written approval from the health officer that the
building complies with the terms of the chapter, the sanitary code
of the State, and Borough, and the written approval of the building
inspector, showing that the building complies with the local building
code, and the written approval from the fire chief stating that the
premises complies with the fire prevention code. The building shall
also comply with any building regulations as prescribed by the Statutes
of the State of New Jersey.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S3]
All such applications for permits shall be in writing and presented
to the secretary of the Board of Health on blanks to be furnished
by the secretary, setting forth the name of the applicant, his address,
his occupation, and if he is not the owner of the building, the name
of the owner of the building, the location where the business is to
be conducted, the number of rooms in the building, and which rooms
are to be occupied as sleeping rooms, together with the sanitary facilities,
which includes wash basins, toilets, and bathing facilities.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S4]
Before a permit is issued, the person making the application
shall file plans in triplicate, plans of each floor of the building
used for the purpose herein mentioned, which plans shall be drawn
to scale of not less than one-quarter inch to a foot showing all fire
escapes, stairs, halls, all the bedrooms and exits of each floor,
and a statement in writing, showing the number of lodgers housed on
each floor, and the number of lodgers to be housed in each room, which
shall be written on the application.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S5]
Fire escapes shall conform to tenement house laws of the State
of New Jersey. No building three or more stories in height shall hereafter
be used as a hotel, rooming, lodging or boarding house, unless such
building is equipped with at least two fire escapes, location of which
shall be shown on plans, reaching from the topmost story thereof to
the ground. The exits to the fire escapes shall be at least three
feet in width, and shall, at all times, be open and unencumbered so
that there is no obstruction to their use. A red light on the doorway
leading to the fire escape or exit shall be lighted at all times.
Doors leading to such fire escapes shall be hung so that they shall
open outwardly and be so latched that they can be unfastened by anyone
on the inside thereof.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S6]
No more than three adults, or two adults and two of their children
shall be permitted to sleep in one sleeping room in the house. Sleeping
rooms for one person shall be no less than 75 square feet, sleeping
rooms for two people should be no less than 100 square feet, sleeping
rooms for three people should be no less than 125 feet, and sleeping
rooms for four people no less than 150 square feet of floor space.
Each room shall have adequate ventilating and heating facilities:
There shall be in each house at least one toilet, one wash basin,
and one bath or shower for the accommodation of each six persons that
the licensed premises are permitted to accommodate, or portion thereof.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S6]
All bedrooms shall have sufficient heat furnished during October
15th to May 15th. In accordance with local sanitary codes the temperature
in such bedrooms during all hours shall not be less than 70 degrees.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S7]
The permittee shall at all times comply with the local and State
health and sanitary regulations and requirements, and all fire and
police regulations and requirements, and all building department regulations
and requirements, the building code of the Borough, and regulations
as prescribed by the statutes of the State of New Jersey.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S8]
Every person conducting any hotel, lodging, boarding or rooming
house shall at all times keep therein a standard hotel register in
which shall be inscribed with ink the name and home address of every
guest or person renting or occupying a room. The name of such guests
shall be written upon the register by the person themselves, and if
they cannot write, the names shall be written in by the person renting
such room, stating that the person renting the room could not sign
his name, which also shall include the home address of such person,
if transient, and the person renting such room shall thereupon write
opposite the name so registered, the number of the rooms assigned
to each guest, and the time when the same is rented, whether a.m.
or p.m., and until all such entries have been made in such register,
no guest shall be permitted to occupy privately any room in such house.
At any time any rooms are surrendered, it shall be the further duty
of such agent to enter the time thereof in the register opposite the
names of all the persons making such surrender. Such register shall
be open at all times to the inspection of any guest of such house
and any peace officer of the Borough.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S8]
In case a reference book or other record is kept in addition
to the standard hotel register, the information herein required, in
whole or in part, may be kept in such reference book or record, and
all entries therein shall be a part of the hotel, lodging, boarding
or rooming house record, and shall be subject to the same inspection
as the standard hotel register.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S9]
It is unlawful for any person to write or cause to be written
in any register in any hotel, lodging, boarding or rooming house any
other or different name than the true name of such person, or the
name by which such person is generally known.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S10]
No room shall be rented or assigned to, or privately occupied
jointly by persons of opposite sex unless such persons are registered
as husband and wife or as parent and minor child, and in no case,
notwithstanding such registration, if the manager or person in charge
of such hotel, lodging, boarding or rooming house shall have reasonable
cause to believe that such persons do not bear the relation to each
other as represented upon such register.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S11]
No room in any hotel, lodging, boarding or rooming house shall
be rented for sleeping or lodging purposes more than once between
the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, except
to bonafide travelers with baggage.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S12]
Every person conducting a hotel, lodging, boarding or rooming
house shall cause each sleeping room in such house to be numbered
in a plain and conspicuous manner. Such number shall be placed on
the outside door of the room and no two rooms shall bear the same
number.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S13]
In the conduct of any hotel, lodging, boarding or rooming house,
the acts of the agent, servants or employees of the owner thereof,
shall be deemed to be the acts of the employer or owner.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S14]
Permits issued under this chapter may be revoked by resolution
of the Board of Health whenever it shall find that the permittee or
owner, agent, servant or employee of the permittee has violated the
provisions of this chapter or permitted the same to be violated, or
has violated any other ordinance of the Borough or any Statutes of
the State of New Jersey in the conduct of the business for which this
permit is granted; however, no such permit shall be revoked unless
charges in writing shall first have been filed with the secretary
of the Board of Health setting forth with reasonable certainty the
nature of the charges against the permittee. Upon the filing of charges
as aforesaid, the Board of Health, shall fix the time and place for
the hearing of the charges, and a copy of the charges as filed together
with notice of time and place of hearing, shall be served on the permittee
at least five days prior to the date fixed by the Board of Health
for the hearing.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S14]
Any notice thereof for charges against the permittee shall be
served either:
a.
By delivering a copy personally to the permittee, or
b.
By leaving a copy with some person of suitable age and discretion
in the place of the business of the permittee, or if no such person
can be found at the place of business of the permittee, by leaving
such notice for the permitted at his place of business as set forth
in his application for license.
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At the hearing of the charges, the permittee shall have the
right to appear and defend the charges and if he so desires, to be
represented by counsel.
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[Ord. 6/26/56, S15]
Any inspections which may be made by the health officer, by
the building inspector or the fire chief may be made by any one of
them, or any one duly authorized by them to make such inspection and
they may make inspections before or after the permit is issued, at
all reasonable hours.
[Ord. 6/26/56, S16]
The permit fee for any permit issued hereunder shall be based
upon the following schedule, to wit, for any hotel, rooming, lodging
or boarding house designed to accommodate, or which it is intended
to accommodate:
[Ord. 6/26/56, S17]
This chapter is not adopted for revenue, but is a regulatory
chapter, and is enacted to safeguard the health, life and safety of
the occupants of the buildings wherein the permit is issued.
