No building or parts of a building shall be
used as a rooming, lodging or boarding house, before the person or
persons, firm or corporation, desiring such use, make written application
to and receive from the Health Officer of West New York a permit authorizing
such use. Such permit shall be issued only to persons of good moral
character and shall not be transferable. Such permits shall run from
January 1 of each year and shall terminate on December 31 of the same
year such permit is issued. Permits issued after January 1 shall also
expire on December 31 of the same year. Permits issued during 1954
shall expire December 31, 1955. Application for renewal of permits
must be the same as if an original permit is applied for. Such permit
shall be signed by the Health Officer and shall be posted in a prominent
place in said house. Before any permit is issued, however, the Health
Officer shall submit the application to the Building Inspector and
the Combustibles Inspector of the town and shall not issue such permit
until he has received a written approval from the said Inspectors
showing that the building complies with the local Building Code and
the Fire Prevention Code or law. The building must also comply with any building regulations as prescribed by the statutes of the State of New Jersey, as well as all of the requirements of Chapter
322, Sanitation.
All such applications for permits must be in
writing and presented to the Health Officer on blanks to be furnished
by said Health Officer, setting forth the name of the applicant, his
address, his occupation and, if he is not the owner of said building,
the location where said business is to be conducted, the number of
rooms in said building and which of said rooms are to be occupied
as sleeping rooms, together with the sanitary facilities, such as
wash basins and toilets, and other pertinent information.
Before a permit is issued, the person or persons, firm or corporation making the application must, in addition to the facts set forth in the application as prescribed by §
316-3, also make a statement, in writing, of the number of roomers housed on each floor and the number of roomers to be housed in each room, which must be written in on the application required to be filed under §
316-3.
Every rooming, lodging and boarding house shall
provide, use and apply the services of an exterminator for and to
its said furnished rooms or furnished apartments as defined in this
chapter, at least once monthly, and oftener when required by the Health
Officer.
Screens are to be provided for all windows in
rooms coming within the purview of this chapter from May 1 to October
31 of each year.
The permittee shall at all times comply with
all local, county and state health and sanitary regulations and requirements,
and all fire and police regulations and requirements, and all Building
Department regulations and requirements, the Building Code of the
town, and regulations as prescribed by the statutes of the State
of New Jersey.
The lodging of a married couple related by marriage
or blood of the permittee shall not come within the terms of this
chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to write
or cause to be written in any register in any lodging, boarding or
rooming house any other or different name than the true name of such
person or the name by which such person is generally known.
No room shall be rented or assigned to, or privately
occupied jointly by persons of the opposite sex, unless registered
as husband and wife, or as parent and minor child, and in any case,
notwithstanding such registration, if the manager or person in charge
of such lodging, boarding or rooming house shall have reasonable cause
to believe that such persons do not bear the relations to each other
as represented upon such register, he shall refuse the rental, assignment
and accommodation.
Every person conducting a building in accordance with the provisions of §
316-1 shall cause each unit in such house to be numbered in a plain and conspicuous manner. Such number shall be placed on the outside door of the unit and no two units shall bear the same number.
In the conduct of any lodging, boarding or rooming
house, the acts of the agent, servants or employees of the owner thereof
shall be deemed to be the acts of said employer or owner.
Any inspections which may be made by the Health
Officer, or by the Building Inspector or Combustibles Inspector, may
be made by any one of them or anyone duly authorized by them to make
such inspection or inspections, and they may make inspections, before
or after the permit is issued, at all reasonable hours.
The permit required under this chapter shall
be necessary in addition to such license as may be required by any
state law or present ordinance or any ordinance hereinafter enacted,
and the premises cannot be operated for the purposes mentioned herein
unless the permit is obtained and a license is obtained, if necessary.
[Amended 10-19-1977 by Ord. No. 1261]
Any person, persons, firm or corporation engaged in the business of keeping a lodging, rooming or boarding house without first having obtained a permit therefor, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to the penalties provided for in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
I.