Borough of Bergenfield, NJ
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2023-10-17
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 87 Alcoholic Beverages
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Article III Entertainment in Licensed Premises
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administrative Organization
- Ch 3 Antinepotism Policy
- Ch 5 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 9 Civil Service
- Ch 13 Court, Municipal
- Ch 15 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 17 Departments
- Ch 21 Drug and Alcohol Abuse Policy
- Ch 25 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 29 Fiscal Year
- Ch 32 (Reserved)
- Ch 34 Housing Authority
- Ch 38 Interlocal Services
- Ch 42 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 46 Mayor and Borough Council
- Ch 50 Officers and Employees
- Ch 54 Ordinances, Adoption of
- Ch 56 Personnel
- Ch 65 Sexual Harassment Policy
- Ch 69 Special Improvement Districts
- Ch 73 Volunteer Ambulance Corps
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 83 Alarms
- Ch 87 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 87 Art III Entertainment in Licensed Premises
- § 87-13 Purpose.
- § 87-14 Employment regulations.
- § 87-15 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 91 Amusements
- Ch 95 Animals
- Ch 99 Auctioneers
- Ch 103 Autobuses
- Ch 107 Barbershops
- Ch 111 Bicycles
- Ch 116 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 118 Builders, Contractors and Landscapers
- Ch 120 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 124 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 126 Buildings Unfit for Human Habitation
- Ch 127 Cannabis Tax
- Ch 128 Carnivals
- Ch 136 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 138 Cranes
- Ch 142 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 149 Filming
- Ch 153 Firearms
- Ch 157 Fire Prevention
- Ch 161 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 165 Games of Chance
- Ch 170 Graffiti
- Ch 174 Handbills
- Ch 178 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 186 Land Development
- Ch 190 Laundromats
- Ch 198 Licensing
- Ch 200 Lightning Detection System
- Ch 194 Library
- Ch 202 Littering
- Ch 205 Loitering
- Ch 207 Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 208 Massage Parlors, Rules and Regulations
- Ch 211 Motor Vehicles on Open Lots
- Ch 215 Noise
- Ch 221 Parking
- Ch 223 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 227 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 232 Property Maintenance
- Ch 233 Property, Abandoned
- Ch 236 Public Records, Access to
- Ch 239 Rental Property
- Ch 240 Rent Control
- Ch 241 Restricted Areas in Municipal Offices
- Ch 244 Sales, Special
- Ch 246 Salt Storage, Privately Owned
- Ch 248 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 252 Sewers
- Ch 256 Shopping Carts
- Ch 262 Soil Removal
- Ch 266 Solid Waste
- Ch 268 Stormwater Management
- Ch 270 Street Fairs
- Ch 273 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 277 Swimming Pools
- Ch 279 Taxation
- Ch 280 Telephones, Outdoor Public
- Ch 282 Tobacco Products; Smoking
- Ch 284 Towers
- Ch 288 Trailers
- Ch 291 Trees
- Ch 295 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 297 Vehicles, Electric
- Ch 299 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 303 Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 306 Water
- Ch 310 Child-Care Centers
- Ch 312 Cosmetology
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 341 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 344 Sanitary Code
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 10-15-1985 by Ord. No. 2015]
The purpose of this article is to provide for
the economic and social welfare, health and peace of the people of
the Borough of Bergenfield, and its provisions shall be liberally
construed for the accomplishment of that purpose.
A.
No person shall be employed or otherwise permitted
by any licensee to perform dancing or other entertainment in or upon
any licensed premises in a lewd, licentious or lascivious manner.
B.
No person shall be employed or otherwise permitted
by any licensee to appear upon the licensed premises in any act, scene,
sketch, dance or other form of entertainment for the benefit of patrons
with either or both breasts or lower part of the torso uncovered or
so thinly covered or draped so as to appear uncovered. No such person
shall accept or solicit gratuities from a patron or invitee in furtherance
of, or as a payment for, a performance prohibited by this article;
nor shall a proprietor of a licensed premises permit such activity.
C.
No waiters, waitresses, or other employees who serve
patrons shall appear in the presence of such patrons with either or
both breasts or the lower part of the torso uncovered or so thinly
covered or draped so as to appear uncovered.
A.
Violation of any provision of this article shall be
cause for a summons to be issued by any member of the Bergenfield
Police Department.
B.
Any person conducting a business duly licensed to sell alcoholic beverages who violates any provision of § 87-14 shall be subject to a penalty for each offense of not more than $500 or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both, for each offense.
C.
No provision of this article shall be construed to
impair any common law or statutory cause of action or legal remedy
therefrom of any person for injury or damage arising from any violation
of this article or from other law.
