[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
(now the Township Council) of the Township of Saddle Brook 12-26-1956 by Ord. No. 435. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall engage in the business of conducting
or operating a migrant labor camp in the Township of Saddle Brook
without first having applied for and obtained from the Township of
Saddle Brook a license to do so. No such license shall be issued to
any person who has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude,
nor shall any such license be issued to any corporation in which any
stockholder holding 10% or more of any of the stock thereof or in
which any director or officer shall have been convicted of a crime
involving moral turpitude.
A.Â
Each applicant for such license shall make written
application on forms provided and supplied by the Township Council,
setting forth:
(1)Â
The full name, residence and post office address of
the applicant.
(2)Â
The exact location of the proposed licensed premises,
giving the street address and the block and lot numbers as shown on
the Tax Assessment Map of the Township, and the exact dimensions of
the lands upon which the business is to be conducted.
(3)Â
A description of the buildings, structures and accommodations
upon said lands, including a statement of the maximum number of persons
who can be accommodated at any given time, a description of the character
of said buildings or structures as to size, type of construction and
whether or not the same are fireproof, and a description of automobile
parking space and facilities.
(4)Â
The name and address of the owner of said lands and
buildings.
(5)Â
The name and address of the person upon whom process
may be served.
(6)Â
A detailed description of the register or system used
for the registration of persons to whom accommodations are extended.
(7)Â
Whether the applicant or any partner thereof or any
stockholder holding 10% or more of the stock thereof or any director
or officer thereof has ever been convicted of any crime, and if so,
the details thereof, including, with respect to each conviction, the
name of the person convicted, the date thereof, the nature of the
crime, the court in which the conviction was entered and the punishment
imposed.
(8)Â
In the case of corporate applicants, the names and
residences of all stockholders holding 10% or more of any stock of
the corporation, the names and residences of all members of the board
of directors of the corporation and the names and residences of all
officers of the corporation and the office held by each.
B.Â
Each application shall be made in triplicate and shall
be signed and sworn to by the applicant and presented to the Township
Clerk, together with a certified or bank check or cash in the amount
of the license fee hereinafter provided.
The Township Clerk shall forthwith forward said
application to the Division of Health and to the Fire Chief of the
Township of Saddle Brook, who shall inspect the premises to determine
whether or not they comply with the health and fire ordinances and
regulations. If the premises do not comply therewith, said officers
shall attach to said application a written statement setting forth
in detail said noncompliance and return the same to the Township Clerk,
who shall return it to the applicant. If the premises do comply, said
officers shall attach to the application their certificates of approval.
The Township Clerk shall present said application, thus approved,
to the Township Council, which shall thereupon cause to be made such
further investigation of the premises and of the information set forth
in the application as the Council may deem necessary and shall, on
the basis of said investigation and application, determine whether
or not such license shall be granted.
[Amended 3-26-1987 by Ord. No. 945]
The annual fee for said license is hereby fixed
and determined as $1,000.
Any license issued under the provisions of this
chapter shall be for a term of one year, commencing the first day
of January of each year and expiring the 31st day of December of that
year. No license fee shall be apportioned, regardless of the date
on which such license may be issued. Each license shall be valid only
for the applicant to whom it is issued. All licenses shall be displayed
at a prominent place on the licensed premises. Any change in any of
the information set forth in the application during the term of the
license shall forthwith be communicated by the licensee in writing
to the Township Clerk.
A.Â
Each licensee shall at all times cause to be maintained
on the licensed premises a register, consisting of a permanently bound
volume of consecutively numbered pages. Each licensee shall submit
to the Chief of Police of the Township of Saddle Brook said register,
and the Chief of Police shall endorse the flyleaf thereof with the
words "Official Register" followed by the name of the licensee, the
date of endorsement and the signature of the Chief. In the event of
the absence or disability of the Chief, the endorsement shall be made
by the Acting Chief or by such other person as the Township Council
may hereafter direct. No registration hereinafter required to be made
shall be made in any register other than the Official Register endorsed
as aforesaid unless and until said Official Register shall have been
completely filled. Each such register, upon being filled, shall be
preserved for not less than six years upon the licensed premises,
and a new register, endorsed as aforesaid, shall thereupon be used
for subsequent registration.
B.Â
No person shall occupy or use, visit, dwell or reside
in said premises, and no licensee shall permit any person to occupy
or use, visit, dwell or reside in said premises, unless such person
shall first write in the Official Register, immediately following
the preceding registration, in ink and in his or her own handwriting,
his or her full and true name and address.
C.Â
In addition to the foregoing information the licensee
shall cause to be written into the Official Register, in ink, the
date and hour of registration, the signature of the person taking
or accepting the registration and the hour when the person quits or
leaves the premises.
D.Â
A separate registration shall be made for each day,
notwithstanding the fact that the residence of any person is continuous.
E.Â
The Official Register shall be kept and preserved
by the licensee and shall be available on request at any hour of the
day or night to any police officer of the Township of Saddle Brook.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department
of the Township of Saddle Brook to inspect the licensed premises from
time to time at any hour of the day or night to determine that the
provisions of this chapter are being complied with.
The terms used in this chapter are hereby defined
as follows:
One or more tents, vehicles, buildings or structures, together
with a tract of land appertaining thereto, used as living quarters
by five or more seasonal, temporary or migrant workers directly or
indirectly in connection with any work or place where work is being
performed, whether or not rent is paid or reserved in connection with
the use or occupancy of such premises.
[Amended 2-26-1957 by Ord. No. 436]
Any person, individual, firm, association, partnership or
corporation.
Shall not include any person who is or shall have been a
resident of this state and who has had or shall have had his year-round
dwelling place in this state for one year or longer and who dwells
in said year-round dwelling place while engaging in any seasonal or
temporary work.
Any license issued under this chapter may be
revoked or suspended for any violation of this chapter, after due
notice of the charges and a hearing by the Township Council at which
the licensee shall be afforded full opportunity to be heard.
Any person violating any of the terms and provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine
not exceeding $200 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not
exceeding 90 days, or both, for each offense, in the discretion of
the court.
