[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Port Jefferson as Ch. 39 of the 1970 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person shall open, keep, maintain, own, operate
or carry on any employment agency in the Incorporated Village of Port
Jefferson unless such person shall have first procured an annual license
therefor as provided in this chapter and shall have paid the annual
fees therefor. Such license shall be posted conspicuously in said
agency.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any person, as hereinafter defined who, for a fee, procures
or attempts to procure employment or engagements for persons seeking
employment or engagements or procures or attempts to procure employees
for employers seeking the services of employees or renders vocational
or guidance service for such seekers.
A corporation, association, partnership, individual or their
employees or agents.
[Amended 6-11-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992]
The fee payable for such license shall be the
sum of $100 annually.
A.
A written application for such annual license shall
be made to the Board of Trustees by the person owning said employment
agency, and said application shall be made in the form prescribed
by the Board of Trustees.
B.
Every license shall contain the name of the person
licensed, a designation of the street and number of the place in which
the person licensed is authorized to carry on said employment agency
and the number and date of such license.
C.
Any license issued hereunder shall run for a period
of one year following the date thereof, unless sooner revoked.
D.
The Mayor or his designee will act as licensing officer.
[Added 6-11-1992 by L.L.
No. 4-1992]
No license shall be issued to a person who is
not of good character or responsibility or where the name of the employment
agency directly or indirectly expresses any limitation, specification
or discrimination as to race, creed, color or national origin. No
license shall be valid for any person other than the person to whom
it is issued or for any place other than that designated in the license,
and no license shall be assigned or transferred without the consent
of the Board of Trustees. The location of an employment agency shall
not be changed without the consent of the Board of Trustees.
[Amended 6-11-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992; 1-5-2015 by L.L. No. 1-2015]
Any person who violates this chapter or fails to comply with any of its requirements shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalties provided in § 1-2 of the Code of the Village of Port Jefferson.
