[Amended at time of adoption of Code by the Board of Health
(see Ch. 405, General Provisions, Board of Health, Art. I)]
It shall be unlawful for any person or any body
corporate to conduct a retail food establishment as defined in and
governed by N.J.A.C. 8:24, Sanitation in Retail Food Establishments
and Food and Beverage Vending Machines, without first having procured
a license from the Board of Health so to do or without complying with
any or all of the provisions concerning operation and maintenance
of the same as contained in the aforementioned N.J.A.C. 8:24.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code by the Board of Health
(see Ch. 405, General Provisions, Board of Health, Art. I)]
The fees for licensure of retail food establishments are provided in §
457-9.
No provision of this chapter shall be applied
so as to impose any unlawful burden on either interstate commerce
or any activity of the state or federal government.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code by the Board of Health
(see Ch. 405, General Provisions, Board of Health, Art. I)]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished
by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $500, and each violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter, and each day the same is
violated shall be deemed and taken to be a separate and distinct offense.
The provisions of this chapter are declared
to be severable, and if any section, subsection, sentence, clause
or phrase hereof shall, for any reason, be held to be invalid or unconstitutional,
such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections,
subsection, sentences, clauses and phrases of this chapter, but they
shall remain in effect, it being the legislative intent that this
chapter shall stand notwithstanding the invalidity of any part.
All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, in conflict
or inconsistent with this chapter are hereby repealed, but only, however,
to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency, it being the legislative
intent that all other ordinances, or parts of ordinances, now existing
and in effect, unless the same be in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of this chapter, shall remain in full force
and effect.