[Adopted 2-9-1993 by Ord. No. 1753 (Ch. 75, Art. III, of the 1990 Code)]
No person shall, within the limits of the Township of Franklin, consume any alcoholic beverage or have in his possession any unsealed alcoholic beverage container with alcoholic beverage therein:
A. 
In the parking area adjacent to any licensed premises for the sale of alcoholic beverages.
B. 
While in or on a public street, lane, roadway, avenue, sidewalk, public parking place public park or public picnic area, playground, recreation area.
C. 
While in or about any other public or quasi-public place or place to which the public is invited, including but not limited to any multifamily residential parking areas, common open space except when such consumption or possession is permitted with the express permission of the owner or other body, board or person having the authority to grant such permission or while upon any land owned or occupied by any federal, state, county or municipal government or subdivision thereof or Board of Education unless the government body owning or occupying such land shall have granted such permission.
[Added 9-9-2014 by Ord. No. 4074-14]
A. 
Exempt from § 93-14C are the following facilities: Van Wickle House, 1289 Easton Avenue, Somerset; Wyckoff-Garretson House, 215 South Middlebush Road, Somerset; Van Liew-Suydam House, 280 South Middlebush Road; and Hageman Farm, 209 South Middlebush Road, and said facilities are required to obtain a permit through the Township Clerk's office.
B. 
Application to obtain permission to serve alcoholic beverages in the facilities listed in § 93-14.1A shall include name, address, primary phone number, cell phone number, email address, name and address of facility, and date, time and purpose of event.
C. 
Submitted with said application shall be a certificate of insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 for the use of said facility, naming the Township of Franklin as additional insured. Said certificate shall be filed with the Franklin Township Clerk at least five days prior to event.
D. 
Permit fee: $100.
For the purpose of the article, a container shall be regarded as unsealed when its top or cork has been removed or any of its contents have been removed or the government tax stamp has been removed or broken, or, in the case of a metal container, when the container has been opened in any fashion, or in the case of twist-top containers, when the original seal has been broken.
Any person found guilty of a violation of any section of this article shall be punished as provided in Chapter 1, Article II, General Penalty.