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.
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.