[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Paramus 11-4-1971 by Ord. No. 686 (Ch. 8, Art. 8, of the 1969 Code). Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Amended 6-13-1989 by Ord. No. 89-28; 11-24-1992 by Ord. No. 92-23]
It shall be unlawful for any person or any body corporate to
conduct a retail food establishment as defined in and governed by
Chapter XII of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code, adopted as the
Sanitary Code of Paramus, 1974, without first having procured an annual
license from the Local Board of Health so to do and without complying
with any or all of the provisions concerning operation and maintenance
of the same as contained in the aforementioned Chapter XII of the
State Sanitary Code.
[Amended 4-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-14; 6-13-1989 by Ord. No. 89-28; 11-24-1992 by Ord. No. 92-23; 6-14-1994 by Ord. No. 94-12; 6-14-1994 by Ord. No. 94-13; 3-27-2001 by Ord. No. 01-6; 8-29-2006 by Ord. No. 06-24; 11-23-2010 by Ord. No. 10-18; 4-7-2015 by Ord. No. 15-08]
A.
B.
The licenses issued aforesaid shall be effective for the calendar
year, expiring on the 31st day of December of the year of issue, and
may be renewable for succeeding calendar years thereafter. The fee
for license renewals shall be due and payable on or before the first
day of February in the year of renewal. Retail food establishments
in operation and holding current licenses at the time of enactment
of this chapter shall be required to renew licenses at the revised
fees specified herein for succeeding years.
C.
Late fees.
(1)
A late fee of $50 shall be charged on all license fees of $250 or
less which are not paid on/or before February 1 of the license year.
An additional $50 shall be charged for each thirty-day period that
the license fee is not paid after February 1 of the license year.
(2)
A late fee of $75 shall be charged on all license fees in excess
of $251 which are not paid on/or before February 1 of the license
year. An additional $75 shall be charged for each thirty-day period
that the license fee is not paid after February 1 of the license year.
A.
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 Chapter XII of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code 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, 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.
[Amended 6-13-1989 by Ord. No. 89-28]
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 licensees 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 United 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 city,
unless the application for such license shall be approved by the Board
of Health.
No provision of this chapter shall be applied so as to impose
any unlawful burden on either interstate commerce or any activity
of the state or federal government.
[Amended 11-24-1992 by Ord. No. 92-23; 3-14-2006 by Ord. No. 06-2]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to the penalties provided by § 1-15 of this Code, and each violation of any of the provisions of this chapter and each day the same is violated shall be deemed and taken to be a separate and distinct offense.
