[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hackensack 6-16-1947 as Ord. No. 345; amended and revised 10-5-1959 (Ord. No. 717) as Ch. 3, Article XIV,
of the 1959 Revised Ordinances. Sections 158-3A, 158-5A and 158-9 amended
at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Article I. Other
amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The renting, leasing, maintaining, keeping, operating, conducting
or providing of overnight or temporary sleeping accommodations, for a consideration,
to tourists, transients or travelers in any building or structure or group
of buildings or structures devoted exclusively or primarily to said business,
commonly known as tourist lodges, tourist cabins, motor lodges, motor courts,
tourist courts or tourist camps, whether meals are served therein or not.
Any room, cabin or quarters, whether or not physically attached or
connected with any other building or structure, used for sleeping accommodations
in the business of conducting tourist lodges.
No person shall engage in the business of conducting tourist lodges
without having first applied for and obtained from the City of Hackensack
a license to do so.
A.
Each applicant for such license shall make written application on forms prescribed and supplied by the City Council, setting forth the information required by § 107-6B of Chapter 107, Licenses and Permits, and the following:
(1)
The exact location of the proposed licensed premises,
giving the street address, block and lot number as shown on the tax assessment
map of the city, and the exact dimensions of the lands upon which the business
is to be conducted.
(2)
A description of the buildings, structures and accommodations
upon said lands, including a statement of the number of housing or lodging
units and the maximum number of persons who can be accommodated at any given
time; a description of the character of said buildings or structures as to
size, type of construction and whether or not the same are fireproof; and
a description of automobile parking space and facilities.
(3)
The name and address of the owner of said lands and buildings.
(4)
The name or names of the person or persons on the licensed
premises upon whom process may be served.
(5)
A detailed description of the register or system used
for the registration of persons to whom accommodations are extended.
B.
Each application shall be made in triplicate and shall
be signed and sworn to by the applicant and presented to the City Clerk, together
with a certified or bank check or cash in the amount of the license fee hereinafter
prescribed.
A.
The City Clerk shall forthwith forward said application
to the Health Department and to the Fire Chief of the City of Hackensack,
who shall inspect the premises to determine whether or not the premises comply
with the Health Department and fire ordinances and regulations.[1] If the premises do not so comply, said Health Department shall
attach to said application a written list of recommendations and return the
same to the City Clerk, who shall in turn return said application to the applicant.
If the premises do so comply, said Department and officer shall attach thereto
certificates of approval.
B.
The City Clerk shall present said application, with said
certificates of approval attached, to the City Council. The City Council shall
thereupon cause to be made such further investigation of the premises and
of the information set forth in said application as it may deem necessary,
and shall determine on the basis of said investigation and application whether
or not such license shall be granted.
A.
Any license issued under the provisions of this chapter
shall be for a term of one year, commencing January 1 and expiring December
31, and no license fee shall be apportioned.
B.
Each license shall be valid only to the applicant to
whom it is issued and to such applicant to whom the license may be transferred
as hereinafter provided.
C.
All licenses shall be displayed at a prominent place
on the licensed premises.
D.
On application made therefor setting forth the same matters
and things as are required by this chapter to be set forth in connection with
an original application for a license, the City Council, with the consent
of the licensee and upon payment of a fee of 10% of the annual license fee
for the license sought to be transferred, may transfer to such applicant any
license issued under the terms and provisions of this chapter. Said ten-percent
fee shall be retained by the City Council whether the transfer is granted
or not. This provision shall not be construed so as to permit the transfer
of location of a tourist lodge from one premises to another.
A.
Each licensee shall at all times cause to be maintained
on the licensed premises a register, in which each person who is afforded
accommodations on the licensed premises, or someone under his or her direction,
shall write, in ink, his or her full and true name and address and state license
or registration number appearing on the motor vehicle then being used or operated
by the registrant or registrants.
B.
In addition to the foregoing information, the licensee
shall cause to be written into the register, in ink, the number of the room
or name of the cabin assigned to each registrant, the date and hour of registration,
the name of the person who takes or accepts the registration and the date
when the occupant of each room or cabin quits and surrenders the same. Each
registration shall be consecutively numbered in the chronological order of
registration.
C.
Said register shall be kept and preserved by the licensee
and shall be available on request at any hour of the day or night to any police
officer of the City of Hackensack. The system of registration as described
in the licensee's application shall not be altered in any manner unless
the licensee shall first have applied for and received the permission of the
City Council to do so.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department of the City of Hackensack
to inspect the licensed premises from time to time, at any hour of the day
or night, to determine that the provisions of this chapter are being complied
with.
