[Amended 5-1-1956; 5-20-1975]
No person shall conduct, maintain or operate a retail food establishment in the Township of Readington who does not possess a license from the Board of Health, provided that no license shall be required for any public eating establishment operated by or in conjunction with any public school, church or incorporated charitable institution. Such license shall not be transferable and shall continue in force and effect until the first day of June next ensuing the date of granting thereof unless sooner revoked or suspended.
[Amended 5-20-1975; 8-21-1979; 10-16-1984]
A. 
A license fee is hereby established as follows:
(1) 
Fifty dollars per year or fraction thereof.
(2) 
Such further sums as may be charged by the Hunterdon County Department of Health.
B. 
The fee shall accompany the application for the license.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sections 2:4-3 through 2:4-6, which immediately followed this subsection, were deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 246, General Provisions, Board of Health, Art. I) as superseded by Chapter 12 of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code.
The enforcement officer or other authorized representative of the Board shall from time to time make inspections of food establishments in the township to determine compliance with the sanitation regulations hereinafter set forth and shall report thereon. A copy of such inspection report shall be posted upon the inside wall of each food establishment by the enforcement officer or other representative of the Board of Health at the time of each inspection of said establishment. Said inspection report shall not be defaced or removed except by the enforcement officer or other representative of the Board of Health.
No impure ice or ice cut from a polluted pond, lake or stream and no ice manufactured from impure water shall be used or sold in the township.
[Added 7-5-1988]
A. 
No person shall conduct, maintain or operate a temporary food concession in the Township of Readington who does not possess a temporary license from the Board of Health; provided, however, that no license shall be required for any temporary food establishment operated by or in conjunction with any nonprofit community or service organization as well as local government, public schools, volunteer fire departments, rescue squads or sports organizations.
B. 
Each such temporary license shall not be transferable and shall continue in full force for a period not to exceed 30 days from issuance unless sooner revoked or suspended.
C. 
Every owner and operator of a temporary food concession shall be required to obtain a temporary license for each establishment. The license procedure for such temporary license is as follows:
[Amended 10-17-1988]
(1) 
Each applicant for a temporary food license shall complete the application and provide all information requested on the application. When requested to do so, each applicant shall provide satisfactory proof to the Board of Health of any representation contained in the application. Failure to do so shall result in a denial of a license. If there is a material misrepresentation or omission in an application, any temporary license issued on the basis of the same or aforesaid application shall be revoked or suspended.
(2) 
There shall be an application fee of $100 per temporary license.
[Amended 12-16-2020 by Ord. No. BH 01-2020]
(3) 
This fee shall accompany the application for the license which shall be made at the Board of Health not less than five business days prior to the commencement of operation of the temporary food concession. The Board of Health shall issue such license not later than two days before the license is required to operate.
(4) 
Such license shall be conspicuously displayed in a prominent place at the temporary food concession.
D. 
The following definitions are applicable:
NONPROFIT/COMMUNITY SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Those organizations which are exempted from tax by the United States Internal Revenue Service and which present to the Board of Health a tax exemption number which has been issued to them by that Federal Agency.
PERSON
Includes organizations, corporations, unincorporated associations, individual person, any group of two or more persons or any other entity (excluding not-for-profit organizations).
TEMPORARY FOOD CONCESSION
One in continuous service for not more than 30 days.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine or penalty not to exceed $500 and not less than $5 for each offense. Each day or part thereof during which such violation shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 246, General Provisions, Board of Health, Art. I).
Any person who shall neglect or refuse to pay any fine imposed in accordance with the preceding section shall be subject to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 90 days. Any person who shall have been twice convicted within the space of six months of having violated this chapter may, in addition to the imposition of the penalty prescribed in § 265-23, be imprisoned in the county jail for any number of days, not exceeding one for each dollar of the penalty.