Borough of Eatontown, NJ
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2023-12-06
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 118 Checks
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Defense Council, Local
- Ch 18 Departmental Organization
- Ch 19 Department of Administration
- Ch 20 Departments
- Ch 21 Emergency Medical Services Department
- Ch 22 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 27 (Reserved)
- Ch 31 Fire Department
- Ch 35 First Aid and Fire Company Volunteers
- Ch 39 Historical Committee
- Ch 48 Officers and Employees
- Ch 52 Pensions
- Ch 55 Police Department
- Ch 57 Professional Services
- Ch 63 Sewerage Authority
- Ch 67 Smoking
- Ch 70 Third-Party Payroll Disbursement
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 78 Alarm Systems
- Ch 82 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 86 Ambulances
- Ch 89 Land Use
- Ch 93 Amusement Devices, Coin-Operated
- Ch 94 Amusement Parks, Facilities and Games
- Ch 97 Animals
- Ch 101 Autobuses
- Ch 102 Balloons and Aerial Luminaries
- Ch 106 Boardinghouses and Rooming Houses
- Ch 111 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 113 Burning, Outdoor
- Ch 116 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 118 Checks
- Ch 118 Art I Insufficient Funds
- § 118-1 Service charge; other remedies.
- § 118-2 Payment by cash or certified check.
- Ch 122 Child Care Centers
- Ch 123 Clothing Donation Bins
- Ch 126 Commercial Drivers' Licenses
- Ch 129 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 130 Criminal History Record Background Checks
- Ch 133 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 136 Drug-Free School Zones and Public Property
- Ch 141 Election Districts
- Ch 145 Existing Structures
- Ch 150 Fees
- Ch 152 Filming
- Ch 154 Firearms
- Ch 158 Fire Hydrants
- Ch 161 Fire Prevention
- Ch 165 Fireworks
- Ch 169 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 170 Glare Nuisances
- Ch 175 Hotels And Motels
- Ch 176 Housing Standards
- Ch 179 Hunting
- Ch 183 Improvements, Off-Tract
- Ch 186 Insurance
- Ch 190 Intersection and Roadway Sight Obstructions
- Ch 194 Junk Dealers
- Ch 198 Licensed Occupations
- Ch 200 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 201 Massage, Bodywork and Somatic Therapy Businesses
- Ch 203 Littering
- Ch 207 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 211 Multiple-Dwelling and Mobile Home Park Superintendents, Licensing of
- Ch 214 Multiple-Dwelling Security Fund
- Ch 218 Public Nuisances
- Ch 222 Nursing Homes, Transportation Requirements
- Ch 227 Parking Areas, Public
- Ch 230 Parking for the Handicapped
- Ch 233 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 237 State of Emergency
- Ch 240 Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
- Ch 244 Pool and Billiard Parlors
- Ch 247 Precious Metals
- Ch 250 Property Maintenance
- Ch 251 Bamboo, Regulation of
- Ch 253 Publications, Sales and Distribution
- Ch 254 Raffles
- Ch 256 Rent Control
- Ch 257 Rental Properties
- Ch 258 Retail Food Establishments and Vending Machines
- Ch 261 Sales
- Ch 264 Sewage Treatment and Disposal
- Ch 266 Sewers
- Ch 267 (Reserved)
- Ch 268 Shopping Carts
- Ch 270 (Reserved)
- Ch 272 Skateboards, Skates, Roller Blades, and Low-Speed Electric Bicycles
- Ch 274 Snow, Ice, Grass and Weed Removal
- Ch 278 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 281 Solid Waste
- Ch 282 Special Events, Outdoor Sales and Temporary Displays
- Ch 283 Stormwater Management
- Ch 285 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 289 Swimming Pools
- Ch 293 Taxation
- Ch 296 Taxicabs
- Ch 300 Tobacco Products
- Ch 303 Towing
- Ch 307 Trees, Removal of
- Ch 312 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 319 Water
- Ch 323 Weeds and Grass
- Ch 326 Youth Sports Code of Conduct
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 329 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 333 Boarding Homes for Children
- Ch 342 Plumbing
- Ch 347 Smoke
- Ch 350 Solid Waste
- Ch 356 Weeds and Grass
- Part IV: Shade Tree Commission Legislation
- Ch 359 General Provisions, Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 360 Shade Trees
- Appendix
- Ch A361 Police Department
- Ch A362 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A363 Agreement With Bell Atlantic-New Jersey for Lines and Communications Facilities
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Eatontown as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 4-24-1991 by Ord. No. 6-91]
A.
Whenever payment on any account owing to the Borough
of Eatontown is made by check or other written instrument which is
subsequently returned for insufficient funds, the Chief Financial
Officer or his/her designee may impose a service charge of $20 for
each returned check or written instrument.
[Amended 8-23-1995 by Ord. No. 12-95; 8-19-2009 by Ord. No. 11-2009; 2-8-2023 by Ord. No. 04-2023]
B.
Whenever an account owing to the municipality is for
a tax or special assessment, the service charge authorized by this
article shall be included on whatever list of delinquent accounts
is prepared for the enforcement of the lien.
C.
The service charge authorized by this article shall
be collected in the same manner prescribed by law for the collection
of the account for which the check or other written instrument was
tendered.
The Chief Financial Officer or his/her designee
may require that payment of any account owing to the Borough of Eatontown
be made by cash or by certified or cashier's check by any person,
corporation or other entity that has previously had a check or other
written instrument returned to the Borough of Eatontown because of
insufficient funds.
