[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Harmony 8-1-1962 (Ch. 53 of the 1990 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
It is determined and declared that the Township
of Harmony contains a place where an agricultural fair and exhibition
is held by an association organized for the purpose of holding agricultural
fairs and exhibitions which has been approved by the State Department
of Agriculture, namely "Warren County Farmer's Fair Association, Inc."
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons,
firm or corporation to own or operate within the Township of Harmony
any amusement games, as said terms are defined by the Amusement Games
Licensing Law, P.L. 1959, c. 109, and the amendments thereto,[1] without first having obtained a license from the Township
Committee of the Township of Harmony. Said license shall be issued
pursuant to and subject to the provisions of the Amusement Games Licensing
Law, as amended, and rules and regulations issued thereunder.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 5:8-100 et seq.
Each applicant for such a license shall file
with the Township Clerk of the Township of Harmony a written application
on such form as may be prescribed by the Amusement Games Licensing
Law, as amended, and also in accordance with the rules and regulations
which may now or hereafter be promulgated by the Amusement Games Control
Commissioner.
The fee for each municipal license shall be
five dollars ($5.).
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
In addition to the above fee, each applicant
and applicant employee shall provide with application a current fingerprinting
report acceptable to the State of New Jersey under the rules and regulations
issued by the Amusement Games Control Commissioner for each licensee
and employee of said licensee.
Amusement games can be conducted only during
that part of the year when there is conducted in the Township of Harmony
an agricultural fair and exhibition by an association organized for
the purpose of holding the same and which is approved by the State
Department of Agriculture for participation in any or all state-sponsored
programs relative to the promotion of agriculture and the advancement
of agricultural interests in this state.
On the days set forth in § 128-6 of this chapter, amusement games may be conducted from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. on the following day, except that there shall be no amusement games conducted on any Sunday.
A.
In the event that
any licensee shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or
the Amusement Games Licensing Law or the rules and regulations promulgated
by the 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 of the penalties which may be
imposed, forfeit any license issued to such licensee under this chapter.
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalty provisions in Chapter 1, Article II, General Penalty, of the Code of the Township of Harmony.
[Amended 8-7-1990 by Ord.
No. 0:90-15; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch.
1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
