[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Island Park 5-19-1960 by Ord. No. 52. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Solid waste — See Ch. 489.
In addition to the trades, business and occupations
required to be licensed, the following businesses and occupations
shall be duly licensed as herein provided, subject to ensuing provisions:
restaurants, ice cream parlors, grocery stores, delicatessen, and
any other store selling food or drink.
No person, firm, association or corporation
shall conduct, run or operate any hotel, restaurant, club, eating
place, lunch counter, or place for the sale of food or beverages of
any class or description in the Village of Island Park without a license
therefor as hereinafter provided.
Any person, firm, association or corporation
who or which shall hereafter desire to conduct, run or operate or
permit to be run, conducted or operated a hotel, restaurant, club,
eating place, lunch counter or place for the sale of food or beverages
of any class or description shall apply in writing to the Board of
Trustees for the issuance of a license therefor, which application
shall state in detail the name of the person or persons, firm, association
or corporation owning, leasing, managing or proposing to conduct or
operate such hotel, restaurant, club, eating place, lunch counter,
or place for the sale of food or beverages, for which license is desired,
the place of residence of such person or persons, or the residence
of the person or persons composing any such firm or association, and
the principal place of business of any such corporation, the name
of the officer, in the case of a corporation, upon whom process or
other legal notice may be served within the Village, the location
within the Village of the building wherein the same is to be located
and the nature of the business which it is desired to conduct or operate.
Upon receipt of any such application, the Village
Clerk shall refer the same to the county health officer for investigation
and report as to the sanitary condition of such hotel, restaurant,
club, eating place, lunch counter or place for the sale of food or
beverages. The county health officer shall thereupon inspect the premises
on which such business is operated and report the results of his investigation
to the Board of Trustees.
[Amended 6-15-1961; 2-16-2006 by L.L. No. 3-2006]
If the county health officer shall report that
his inspection shows that said premises are maintained in sanitary
condition, the Board of Trustees may authorize the Village Clerk to
issue such license to the applicant therefor upon the payment of a
license fee as set from time to time by the Board of Trustees. Said
license fee shall be due and payable when this chapter goes into effect,
and every year thereafter on the first day of March in each and every
year, and shall expire on the 28th day of February in each and every
year.
The Mayor is hereby authorized to suspend any
license in the event that the county health officer shall at any time
report that he has inspected the premises and found the same to be
in an unsanitary condition, until the next meeting of the Board of
Trustees, and thereafter the license may be revoked or continued by
the Board of Trustees, at its discretion, after notice of hearing.
Any person committing an offense against this
article shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine not exceeding
$250 or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 days for each
offense, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
