The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-07-13
CHAPTER cLxxI.
An Act respecting licenses in incorporated
h0r0uUhs

An Act respecting licenses in incorporated
boroughs.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State OF New Jersey That
it shall be lawful for the common council,
board of aldermen, board commissioners
or other governing board of any Incorporated
borough in this state to make and establish
ordinances for the following purposes. VIZ.
to license and regulate expressmen, trucks,
hacks cars omnibuses stages and all other
carriages and vehicles used for transporta-
ton of passengers, baggage, merchandise
and goods and chattels of any kind, and to
the owners and drivers of all such
vehicles and means of transportation, also
auctioneers. common criers, hawkers ped
dlers pawnbrokers, junk wa oDs, bath
houses, news stands, sweeps, scavengers,
travelling and other street shows, street ex-
hibitioEs organ grinders. circuses, merry-go-
mances, plays. exhibitions, concerts, skating
Kinks ftinerant vendors of merchandise,
medicines and remedies and also the place
or premises in which or at which the differ
emit kinds of business occupation mention
ed herein are to be carried on or conducted.
and to fix the rate OF compensation to be
paid therefor, and to prohibit all persons
and places. and all vehicles unlicensed from
acting, using or being used In said capacities,
and for such uses and purposes, and to desig-
nate and locate stands and places which
hackmen, cartmen and all other persons en-
gagged in the carrying of passengers and mer-
chandlse shall be privileged to occupy when
soliciting business, and to prohibit the
occupying of other places for SUCH purposes,
and to Xix and prescribe penalties for the
violation of any such ordinance or ordi-
nances or any section thereof, and that fees
for such licenses may be imposed for the pur-
poses of revenue; provided however. that
no person or persons shall be required to take
out license to sell any of the produce of his
farm.
q And be IL enacted, That every Justice of
the peace in any county is hereby empowered,
on oath or affirmation made according to
law, that any person or persons has or may
have violated any section of said ordinance,
or any of the ordinances of said board in re-
lation thereto, to issue process at the suit of
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a summons for said penalty, which shall be
returnabe in not less than one nor more
than ten entire days such process shall state
what section or sections of the ordinance has
been violated by the defendant or defend
ants and on the return of such process, or at
any time to which the trial shall have been
adjourned. the said court justice of the peace
or recorder shall proceed to hear the testi-
mony, and to determine and give Judgment
in the matter without the filings of any
pleadings and copy of the ordinance or
section of the ordinance alleged to have been
violated, certified under the hand of the clerk
OF the board, shall be taken as full and legal
proof of the existence of such ordinance and
that all the requirements of law in relation
to the ordaining, publishing and making the
same SO as to make the same legal and bind
ing have been complied with, unless the con-
| trary be shown and the said court justice
give judgment for the penalty sued for and
| COSTS If the defendant be proven guilty, and
he may, at the request of the plaintiff
| forthwith issue execution against the goods
and chattels. and also against the body of the
defendant or defendants without any special
order being made to that effect for the
| amC unit of said penalty and costs, and II the
| same be not paid. and the officer is unable to
| find sufficient goods and cbattels over and
| above such as are reserved by law TO satisfy
| said execution in full then he shall take the
| body of the defendant under said execution
and deliver him to the sheriff of the county
| who shall keep him in custody in the Jail of
| the county until he is entitled to release by
| operation of law and no defendant against
| whom an execution shall be or remain un
| satisfied, after being taken into custody
shall be entitled to any of the benefits or
| privileges of any of the insolvent laws or
| acts of this state.
8. And be it enacted That all acts and parts
| of acts inconsistent with this act be aud the
same are hereby repeated.
| 4. And be it enacted. That this act shall
| take effect Immediately.
Approved March %, 1892.