[Adopted 4-2-1958 by Ord. No. 828]
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WHEREAS, the citizens of West New York have
been confronted with numerous fund-raising drives by individuals,
associations or corporations, by personal solicitation or by being
asked to deposit contributions in containers placed in stores and
other places of business and elsewhere; and
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WHEREAS, said contributions are often not properly
handled and are not used for charitable purposes and often many drives
are being conducted at the same times; and
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WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the Town
of West New York deems it in the public interest and for the public
welfare to regulate the conduct of the collection of cash funds for
charitable purposes;
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Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Board
of Commissioners of the Town of West New York, County of Hudson, State
of New Jersey, as follows:
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No individual, association or corporation shall
conduct a drive for the collection of cash funds by personal solicitation
or by placing containers into which money may be deposited without
first obtaining a certificate of authorization from the Coordinator
of Fund-raising Drives as hereinafter provided for.
Said certificate of authorization shall be issued
by said Coordinator after a request for the said certificate shall
have been made in writing. Said request shall be on such form as may
be prepared by the Coordinator and shall contain questions to be answered
by the applicant in order to establish the bona fides of the applicant
and the reason for and use that the collected money will be put; also
the duration of the fund collection drive and the time of beginning
and end of said drive.
The Coordinator shall issue certificates of
authorization so that fund-raising drives shall not conflict one with
another, so far as is possible.
When application is made for the collection
of funds by means of containers to be placed in places of business
and elsewhere, the application shall state the location where said
containers are to be placed, and no containers shall be placed in
any other place except those mentioned in said application.
There is hereby created the position of Coordinator
of Fund-raising Drives, all the powers of which are hereby assigned
to the Department of Public Affairs. The position shall be unsalaried
and the Coordinator shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing
authority.
This article shall have no application to any
fund-raising campaign conducted by any duly established religious
organization in the Town of West New York.
