[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the City
of Bordentown 7-6-1943. Sections 120-1, 120-2A, 120-3B, 120-5, 120-6 and 120-8
amended and § 120-3A(2) added at time of adoption of Code;
see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II. Other amendments noted where
applicable.]
It shall not be lawful for any person to maintain, operate or
conduct in the City of Bordentown, County of Burlington and State
of New Jersey, any bowling alley or billiard room without first presenting
an application for and receiving a license to operate such business
and paying the fee hereinafter prescribed for such license.
A.
Each application for a license issuable under this chapter shall
be made to the City Clerk in writing, setting forth the location of
the business sought to be licensed; the name, residence, age and occupation
of the applicant; and the number of bowling alleys and billiard tables
that the applicant desires to operate.[1]
B.
All such applications shall be accompanied by the appropriate license
fee hereinafter named and shall be submitted to the Commissioners
of the City of Bordentown who, in their discretion, may grant or refuse
such license, and, upon the granting of any license, the City Clerk
shall issue such license to the licensee, and, upon failure to issue
any license, the license fee shall be promptly refunded to the applicant.
A.
The fees payable for a license under this chapter shall be upon the
following basis:
B.
Said license shall be good and valid from the time of granting thereof
until the first Commission meeting of the Commissioners of the City
of Bordentown of the year immediately following the granting of the
license aforesaid; subject, however, to the revocation of the same
by the Commissioners for any violation by the holder thereof of the
provisions of this chapter or any future ordinance regulating the
maintaining or keeping such bowling alleys and billiard rooms.[2]
No bowling alley or billiard room licensed under this chapter
shall be used for purposes of gambling or for violating any of the
ordinances of the City of Bordentown or any of the laws of the State
of New Jersey or of the United States.
No person who shall have received a license to keep or maintain
a bowling alley or billiard room under this chapter shall permit the
same to be open or used between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00
a.m.
Any license issued under this chapter may be suspended or revoked
for the violation of the terms of this chapter or for other good cause.
Upon any proceeding for the suspension or revocation, written notice
of the proceeding shall be served upon the licensee within not less
than five days of the time set for hearing thereon, such notice to
be either in person or by registered mail addressed to the licensed
place of business, and said hearing may be adjourned from time to
time. In case any license is suspended or revoked, the licensee shall
not be entitled to the return of any part of the license fee.
