For the purposes of this chapter, the following
terms used herein shall be deemed to mean:
MOTEL, TOURIST LODGE, TOURIST HOME, CABIN AND/OR AUTO COURT
Any building, structure or place in which or at which overnight
or temporary sleeping or resting accommodations are rented, leased,
kept, operated, conducted or provided to tourists, travelers or transients
for a consideration; also, any such building or structure, or group
thereof, being devoted primarily or exclusively to the conduct and
operation of what are commonly known and designated as tourist lodges,
tourist cabins, tourist courts, motor lodges, motor courts, motels
and/or auto courts, with or without the service of meals, for a consideration.
PERSON
Includes any individual, person, firm, association, partnership,
corporation and other legal entity.
[Amended 11-5-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-16]
No person shall operate, conduct and/or engage
in the business of operating and/or conducting a hotel, boardinghouse,
rooming house, lodging house, motel, tourist home, tourist lodge,
cabin or auto court, without first having applied for and obtained
from the Borough Council of the Borough of Berlin a license so to
do. 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 the stock thereof, or of which any director or officer, shall
have been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude.
The license required by this chapter, together
with a copy of this chapter, shall be posted in a conspicuous place
in the lobby or main entrance hall of every licensed premises.
[Amended 11-20-1978 by Ord. No. 78-18; 7-19-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13; 11-5-2012 by Ord. No.
2012-16]
The annual fee for a license to engage in the
business of conducting, operating or maintaining a licensed premises
hereunder shall be the sum of $50 for each unit of a licensed premises.
All licenses issued hereunder shall be for the calendar year or fraction
thereof.
Any person violating the terms of this chapter
or refusing or neglecting to comply with any of its provisions shall,
upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not more than $200
or imprisonment in the County Jail at Camden, New Jersey, for a period
of not more than 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge
before whom such conviction is had.