Township of Harmony, NJ
Warren County
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Chapter 173: Food Establishments, Retail
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Harmony 12-14-2010 by Ord. No. 10-11. Amendments noted where applicable.]

§ 173-1 Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
Any fixed or mobile restaurant; coffee shop; cafeteria; short-order cafe; luncheonette; grill; tearoom; sandwich shop; soda fountain; tavern; bar; cocktail lounge; night club; roadside stand; industrial feeding establishment; private, public or nonprofit organization or institution routinely serving food; catering kitchen; commissary; box lunch establishment; retail bakery; meat market; delicatessen; grocery store; public food market or similar place in which food or drink is prepared for retail sale or for service on the premises or elsewhere; and any other retail eating or drinking establishment or operation where food is served, handled or provided for the public with or without charge.

§ 173-2 License required.

It shall be unlawful for any person or any body corporate to conduct a retail food establishment 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 provided by statutes and codes enacted by the State of New Jersey.

§ 173-3 License fees.

The fees for licensure of retail food establishments are hereby fixed at $20 per year.

§ 173-4 Due date for fees; late payment charge.

All such license fees shall be paid on or before January 1 of each year. Failure to make payment by that date shall result in an additional late payment charge of $10 in order to obtain said licensure. The Township of Harmony shall not notify any required license holder to make payment of such license fee.

§ 173-5 Revocation, suspension or cancellation of license.

A. 
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 the violation by the licensee of any provision of this chapter or the Retail Food Establishment Code of New Jersey (1965) 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 is 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.
B. 
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 Untied 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.
C. 
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 township unless the application for such license shall be approved by the Board of Health.

§ 173-6 Violations and penalties.

Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed $200 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not to exceed 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each violation of any provisions of this chapter and each day the same is violated shall be deemed and taken to be a separate and distinct offense.