[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Barnegat 6-17-71. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person or persons, firm or corporation shall engage in the
business of storage of or buying and selling secondhand automobiles
or parts thereof in the Township of Barnegat without first obtaining
a license to do so.
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined
as follows:
Any dealer engaged in the business of storing, displaying,
buying or selling secondhand automobiles or parts thereof.
The make, model, engine number and serial number of all motor
vehicles received by any person or persons, firm or corporation engaged
in the business of motor vehicle junk dealer shall be reported within
twenty-four (24) hours after the receipt thereof and before the same
are dismantled or otherwise disposed of, to the Township Clerk of
the Township of Barnegat.
All gasoline, fuel or other explosive material shall be drained
and removed from any motor vehicle within twenty-four (24) hours after
it is received for resale or junking on any premises located in the
Township of Barnegat, and said gasoline, fuel or other explosive material
shall either be removed from said premises or kept in a leakproof
tank, to be buried on the said premises to a sufficient depth so that
the top of the tank shall not be nearer to the surrounding ground
level than two and one-half (2 1/2) feet, and said tank, together
with the filling parts and vents, shall not be placed nearer to any
building located on said premises or upon any adjacent premises than
twenty (20) feet and shall be kept back from the street line in front
of or adjacent to said premises a distance of fifty (50) feet.
It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle junk dealer to permit
any vehicle received on any premises in the Township of Barnegat to
be or remain in the open in such a manner that rainwater shall collect
and remain in any of the parts thereof for a longer period than twenty-four
(24) hours.
All parts of any motor vehicle so designed as to collect and
hold rainwater if left exposed in the open shall be housed in a watertight
building with a foundation and floor so constructed of concrete, brick
or other suitable material as to prevent the harboring therein of
any rats, mice or vermin.
All inflammable material removed from said motor vehicles and
not removed from the premises or immediately destroyed shall be kept
or placed in a fireproof building or room.
It shall be unlawful to stack, pile or place parts of motor
vehicles upon said premises in such a manner as to create a fire hazard
or to create a place for the harboring or breeding of rats, mice or
vermin.
It shall be unlawful to stack, pile or place any part or parts
of said motor vehicles closer to the street line of the street adjacent
to or in front of said premises than twenty (20) feet, and all parts
of motor vehicles shall be so piled, stacked or placed on said premises
as to prevent injury to persons lawfully passing along the street
in front of said premises in the event that said piles, stacks or
parts otherwise placed should fall or become dislodged.
All parts of said motor vehicles shall be so piled, stacked
or otherwise placed a sufficient distance from the side line of said
premises as to prevent the same from falling upon or doing injury
to the adjoining premises or persons lawfully using the same, or other
effective means provided to prevent such injury.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
selling used motor vehicles or motor vehicle junk dealer shall pay
a license fee of five dollars ($5.). The fee for a license issued
after July 1 of any year shall be fifty percent (50%) of the fee for
the entire year.
All persons, firms or corporations now engaged in or hereafter
engaging in the business of motor vehicle junk dealer shall, from
and after the effective date of this chapter, make application to
the Township Clerk, who is hereby designated as the licensing officer
for the purpose of this chapter. Said application shall be in writing
and shall set forth the name of the person or persons, firm or corporation,
their respective addresses or principal place of business, and shall
describe the premises upon which said business is to be conducted,
giving the street frontage and approximate depth of said premises,
and said application shall be accompanied by the license fee hereinabove
provided, and the Township Clerk is hereby directed to present said
application to the Township Committee at its next meeting and is hereby
authorized to issue a license to such person or persons, firm or corporation
on approval of the same by the Township Committee, and said license
shall be effective from the date of issue to the 31st day of December
of the year in which said license is issued, and all persons, firms
or corporations, upon the expiration of any license granted hereunder,
shall make application to the Township Clerk for a license to conduct
said business for the ensuing year or part thereof, and shall pay
for said license the same fee as hereinabove set forth.
The Sanitary Inspector of the Township of Barnegat and the police
officers of said Township are hereby authorized and directed, during
reasonable business hours, to make reasonably periodic and effective
inspection of all of said premises and buildings for the purpose of
ascertaining that the business is being conducted on the licensed
premises in accordance with the provisions hereof.
Any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this chapter shall pay a fine, on conviction thereof,
not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) for each violation, or be
imprisoned for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both, and
each day that this chapter is violated shall constitute a separate
offense.
