[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Fredon Ord. No. 1-94 (Sec. 4-7 of the 1972 Revised General Ordinances). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be for the purpose of regulating all games
of chance held, operated or conducted within the Township, pursuant
to the Acts of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey known as
the Bingo Licensing Law and the Raffles Licensing Law, and in accordance
with the rules and regulations issued or to be promulgated by the
Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission in the Department of
the State of the State of New Jersey. All applications, licenses and
proceedings in connection therewith shall be subject to the provisions
of the acts and the rules and regulations, and any laws, rules and
regulations hereafter enacted; and shall be further subject to the
provisions of this chapter.
[Amended by Ord. No. 95-4]
A.
Hours. No licensee authorized by law shall hold, operate or conduct
any game of chance at the place where the game of chance is being
conducted under license except between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and
11:59 p.m.
B.
Sunday. A license for holding, operating or conducting a licensed
game of chance may provide that the game so licensed may be conducted
under such license on Sunday, and the conduct of licensed games of
chance within the Township on Sunday is authorized.
C.
Organizations eligible for license. No license to conduct a game
of chance as authorized by law shall be issued to any organization
not having a bona fide situs established in good faith within the
State of New Jersey and actively engaged in serving one or more of
the authorized purposes as defined by the rules and regulations of
the Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission.
D.
Games of chance during elections prohibited. No game of chance shall
be conducted under any license at any time during which a general,
municipal, primary, special or board of education election is being
held, while the polls are open for voting at such election.
E.
Fees. All qualified organizations shall be exempt from the payment
of any municipal licensing fee.
