[Ord. 2003-7 § 1,
2003]
It is hereby determined, declared and found that the Borough
of Ship Bottom constitutes a seashore resort with parts thereof customarily
constituting amusement or entertainment area according to the customary
understanding of said terms in the community, which parts thereof
are more particularly described as follows:
A.
Area 1. All of the lands located within the area beginning 126 feet
southwesterly from the southeasterly sideline of 28th Street, measured
parallel with Long Beach Boulevard and 13 feet northwesterly from
the northeasterly sideline of Long Beach Boulevard, and extending
thence southwesterly, parallel with Long Beach Boulevard 26 feet,
thence northwesterly parallel with 28th Street a distance of 28 to
a point, thence southwesterly parallel with 28th Street a distance
of 28 feet to the point of beginning.
B.
Area 2. Beginning at the intersection of the northerly line of 4th
Street, 60 feet wide and the easterly line of Long Beach Boulevard,
100 feet wide, continuing thence north along the easterly line of
Long Beach Boulevard 100 feet to a point; thence east along the southerly
line of Lot 12, Block 131, 100 feet to a point; thence south along
the westerly line of Lot 17, Block 131, 100 feet to a point; thence
west along the northerly line of 4th Street 100 feet to the point
of beginning. It being the intention to describe Lots 6, 7, 8, 9 and
10 Block 631 on a map titled "Plan of Edgewater Beach," a subdivision
filed in the Ocean County Clerk's Office on June 19, 1924 recorded
as filed map C-146, and as shown on a survey prepared by Horn, Tyson
& Yoder, Inc. dated December 22, 1999, and formerly known as Lots
13, 14, 15 and 16 Block 131 on the tax map of the Borough of Ship
Bottom and currently known as Block 131, Lot 13.01 on the tax map
of the Borough of Ship Bottom.
[Prior code § 8-2.2]
No person, without first having obtained a license as herein
prescribed, shall own or operate within the Borough any amusement
game or games, as those terms are defined by the Amusement Games Licensing
Law (Chapter 109, P.L. 1959), whether the games are games of skill
or chance, or both, and whether the games are played and operated
with or without numbers or figures. All applications for a license
under this section shall be obtained from the mayor and council of
the Borough, issued pursuant to the provisions of the above-cited
law and subject to its provisions.
[Prior code § 8-2.3]
Each applicant for a license under this chapter shall file with
the Borough clerk a written application in such form as prescribed
by, and in accordance with, the Amusement Games Licensing Law, as
amended and supplemented, and the rules and regulations promulgated
by the Amusement Games Control Commissioner of the state of New Jersey.
[Prior code § 8-2-5; amended by Ord. 88-21 § 10, 1988]
An identification card fee shall be required for fingerprinting
and the issuance of identification cards for each licensee and the
employee of each licensee under the rules and regulations promulgated
by the Amusement Games Control Commissioner.
[Prior code § 8-2.6]
In the event that any licensee shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter, the Amusement Games Licensing Law or the rules and
regulations promulgated by the State Amusement Games Control Commissioner
or the terms of such license, such licensee shall be a disorderly
person and if convicted as such shall, in addition to suffering any
other penalties which may be imposed by law or any other provision
of this chapter, forfeit any license issued hereunder.
