No person shall carry on or conduct the business of an auctioneer of merchandise, medicines and remedies, auction stores for the sale of silverware, jewelry and goods and chattels of any kind whatsoever, traveling or other shows, circuses and all street parades in connection therewith, theaters, moving-picture shows, opera houses, concert halls, nightclubs, public dance halls, skating rinks, merry-go-rounds, carnivals, bowling alleys, exhibition grounds, and all other places of public amusement within the Township without having first obtained a license from the Township Clerk in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
195, Licensing, Article
I. The number of moving-picture shows requiring permits shall be equal to the number of motion-picture screens upon which one motion picture is shown at any one time.
Applications shall be filed with the Township
Clerk and presented to the Township Committee not later than the second
regular meeting following the filing of the application, at which
meeting the Township Committee may act upon any application so presented
or at any subsequent meeting to which it shall defer action thereon.
No license shall be issued by the Township Clerk until the issuance
has been duly approved by resolution adopted by the Township Committee,
provided that if the Township Committee does not take any action on
the application by either granting or refusing to allow the license
within 60 days of the date on which it is first submitted to the Township
Clerk, the license shall be deemed approved, and the Clerk is authorized
to issue the license.
[Amended 12-27-2005 by Ord. No. O-05-48]
Each applicant for a license for a traveling
show, exhibition ground, carnival or circus shall deposit with the
Township Clerk at the time of filing application a cash bond in the
amount of $1,000 to guarantee that upon the expiration of the license,
the licensed premises and the adjacent public roads and immediate
vicinity of the licensed premises will be left in good condition,
cleaned up and cleared of all paper, waste material and debris.
In addition to the causes specified in §
195-9 of Chapter
195, Licensing, the Township Committee may at any time refuse to grant or may suspend or revoke the license of any licensee for permitting or suffering any activity upon the licensed premises which is or may be detrimental to the public health, safety, welfare or morals.
Violations of the provisions of this article shall be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, Article
II, General Penalty.