[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Phillipsburg (now Town Council) 12-20-1922 by Ord. No. 396 (Ch. 15 of the 1969 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Business licenses — See Ch. 207.
Demonstrations and special events — See Ch. 248.
Entertainment licenses — See Ch. 282.
No travel show or exhibition, razzle-dazzle or group of shows and exhibitions popularly known and designated as "carnival exhibitions" shall exhibit shows or do business within the Town of Phillipsburg without a license first had and obtained as hereinafter set forth.
Application for a license for such carnival show or exhibition shall be made in writing to the Town Council of the Town of Phillipsburg, two weeks before any action shall be taken by the Town Council upon the granting of any such license and notice of the application for license shall be published once in at least two daily newspapers circulating in the Town of Phillipsburg. Said application and said notice of application shall set forth the name of the manager of such carnival and all persons or organizations whether incorporated or not who shall have any interest in or receive any money from the receipts at such carnival and shall state in detail the nature of the exhibition or shows, the location and place where the carnival or exhibition shall be held.
Said license shall not be granted by the Town Council if a petition, signed by 100 freeholders of the Town of Phillipsburg, remonstrating against the granting of said license shall be filed on or before the day when the granting of the application for the license shall be taken into consideration.
If no remonstrance is filed, the Town Council may grant the said license as in its judgment it may deem fit and proper.
[Amended 6-19-1969 by Ord. No. 998]
The fee for any such license shall be $100 per day.
This chapter shall not apply to any show or exhibition actually conducted by the members of any organization or corporation doing business in the Town of Phillipsburg.
In case a license is granted, the licensee shall conform to all police regulations of the Town of Phillipsburg and to the laws of New Jersey and the ordinances of said Town, and upon failure so to do, said license may be revoked by the Mayor of the Town of Phillipsburg by serving notice in writing upon said licensee.
[Amended 6-5-1984 by Ord. No. O:84-18]
Each and every person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II, General Penalty; and the Municipal Court Judge before whom any such person may be brought may impose such punishment by fine or imprisonment in the county jail as he may see fit, not exceeding the maximum herein fixed.