[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Bellmawr 7-12-1972. Amendments noted where applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person or any body corporate to conduct a retail food establishment, as defined in and governed by Title 8, Chapter 24, Sanitation in Retail Food Establishments and Food and Beverage Vending Machines, of the New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq.), established by ordinance of the local Board of Health, without first having procured a license from the local Board of Health so to do or without complying with any or all of the provisions concerning operation and maintenance of the same as contained in the aforementioned Title 8, Chapter 24.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[Amended 12-11-1974; 3-10-1976]
A. 
The fees for licensure of retail food establishments are hereby fixed as provided in Chapter 210, Fees.[1]
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
B. 
All nonprofit fraternal, civic, church or government organizations shall be exempt from the payment of these fees but shall be subject to all other provisions of this chapter.
Each license issued shall expire the last day of March of each calendar year. A late charge as provided in Chapter 210, Fees, shall be charged to any licensee renewing a license after the 31st of March.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
Any license issued under the terms and provisions of this chapter may be suspended or revoked by the Board of Health of this municipality for violation by the licensee of any provision of this chapter or Title 8, Chapter 24, Sanitation in Retail Food Establishments and Food and Beverage Vending Machines, of the New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq.), or whenever it shall appear that the business, trade, calling, profession or occupation of the person, firm or corporation to whom such license was issued is conducted in a disorderly or improper manner or in violation of any law of the United States or the State of New Jersey or any ordinance of this municipality, or that the person or persons conducting the retail food establishment are of an unfit character to conduct the same, or that the purpose for which the license has been issued is being abused to the detriment of the public or is being used for a purpose foreign to that for which the license was issued.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
A license issued under the terms and provisions of this chapter shall not be revoked, canceled or suspended until a hearing thereon shall have been had by the Board of Health.
Written notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be served upon the licensee at least three days prior to the date set for such hearing. Such notice shall also contain a brief statement of the grounds to be relied upon for revoking, canceling or suspending such license. Notice may be given either by personal delivery thereof to the person to be notified or be deposited in the United States Post Office in a sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed to such person to be notified at the business address appearing upon said license.
At the hearing before the Board of Health, the person aggrieved shall have an opportunity to answer and may thereafter be heard, and upon due consideration and deliberation by the Board of Health, the complaint may be dismissed, or if the governing body concludes that the charges have been sustained and substantiated, it may revoke, cancel or suspend the license held by the licensee.
If any such license shall have been revoked, neither the holder thereof nor any person acting for him, directly or indirectly, shall be entitled to another license to carry on the same business within the Borough unless the application for such license shall be approved by the Board of Health.
No provision of this chapter shall be applied so as to impose any unlawful burden on either interstate commerce or any activity of the state or federal government.
Any person who violates any provision of or order promulgated under this chapter or the code referred to herein shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $500 for each violation. Each day a particular violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).