The purpose of this chapter is to require all businesses that
operate within the Township of Haddon to apply for and obtain a license
to conduct such business, or to register with the Township as the
case may be, in order to provide the Township with the opportunity
to confirm that every business operating within the Township complies
with all applicable regulatory and zoning requirements of the Code
of the Township of Haddon and further to ensure that the Township
of Haddon is provided with current and accurate contact information
for each such business so as to foster and promote the coordination
of safe and efficient emergency management procedures and responses
with respect to the operation of all businesses within the Township
of Haddon as a means to ensure the public's health, safety and
welfare.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings:
The carrying on or exercising within the Township of any
trade, business, vocation, occupation, profession, enterprise and/or
establishment for the purpose of making sales of products or services
to any persons, or any manufacturing, commercial or financial activity,
service or business, including but not limited to every kind of vocation,
occupation, commercial enterprise and establishment and all other
kinds of commercial activities, together with all devices, machinery,
vehicles and appurtenances used therein, which activities are conducted
on, within or from any property situated within the Township.
The document required to be filed with the Township Clerk by businesses that are required to register with the Township pursuant to Article III of this chapter.
The Chief of the Haddon Township Police Department, or his
or her designee.
The Mayor and Commissioners of the Township of Haddon.
The document issued to a licensee evidencing compliance with
the licensing requirements of this chapter.
The holder of a business license issued by the Township pursuant
to this chapter.
Means or refers to behavior involving fraud, larceny and/or
the intent to harm persons or things.
Any business and/or person conducting business, including
but not limited to individual business operators, partnerships, limited
liability companies and/or corporations. For the purposes of this
chapter, the term "person" is intended to include an owner, shareholder,
officer or director of any such business entity, or such other person
as can demonstrate themselves to be an employee of such entity, but
shall not include a nonemployee of the person or entity applying for
a license hereunder.
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1393]
Each place, location and/or property at, from or upon which
a licensee or registrant operates and/or conducts business, including
all improvements, structures or buildings thereon and all equipment
and appurtenances connected to or used in connection therewith.
A business or person who files a registration statement pursuant
to this chapter.
A business which is open and operates on a temporary and/or
periodic basis, including but not limited to any business that operates
during only a portion or fraction of any two-month period, whether
or not such operation recurs year to year. For purposes of this chapter,
a garage sale or yard sale shall not be deemed to be a seasonal business.
The Township of Haddon.
The Municipal Clerk of the Township of Haddon, or his or
her designee.
This chapter shall apply to all businesses operating within
the Township except as follows:
A.
This chapter shall not apply to any business which is specifically
licensed under any other provision of the Code of the Township of
Haddon, it being the intent of the Township that such other provision
of the Code shall be deemed to apply to the type of business identified
therein and that any business not specifically regulated by another
chapter of the Code shall be regulated by this chapter; and
B.
The licensing provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any business or occupation which is otherwise licensed by any department, division or agency of the State of New Jersey; provided, however, that such business or occupation shall be required to register in accordance with Article III of this chapter.
For purposes of this chapter, the time within which any action
is required to be taken shall be calculated using business days only
and neither weekends nor legal holidays shall be counted.
Except as expressly stated herein, nothing in this chapter shall
be construed as a waiver of any other provision of the Code of the
Township of Haddon, and all licensees and/or registrants shall be
required to satisfy such provisions of the Code as are or may be applicable
to the business and/or business operations of such licensee or registrant,
including but not limited to zoning requirements, sign permits, payment
of property taxes and/or property maintenance requirements.
