The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-07-17

An act respecting licenses in the boroughs of this
state

An act respecting licenses in the boroughs of this
state.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General As
sembly of the State of New jersey, That it shall
be lawful for the mayor and council, common
council or other governing body 10 any borough OF
this state. TO make and establish ordinances for
the following purposes, namely to license and
regulate the owners and drivers Of express wagons
trucks, hacks, carts, omnibnses, stages, ana all
other carriages and vehicles used for Transports
ton of passengers baggage. merchandise and
goods and chattels of every kind alsO 10 license
and regulate the owners and drivers OF all vehicles
used in connection with any business or ocrupa-
ii n for the purpose Of soliciting orders or deliver
ing goods within the limits of the municipality !;
also to license and regulate all common criers
hawkeTs, peddlers, wnbrokers, junk wagons.
news stands, sweeps, scayengers, travelling and
other street shows, street exhibitions, parades, cir
cuses concerts theaters, skating Kinks merry-go
rounds, observation wheels round-a- bouts, raz-
zle dazzles, or circular swings, organ grinders,
itinerant vendors of medicines and remedies and
merchandise. and to fix the license fees to be paid
therefor which may be imposed for the purpose
OF revenue and also to designate and locate
stands and places which hackmen, cartmen,
and all other persons engaged in carrying pas
Sengers, baggage and merchandise shall be prvi
legged to occupy when soliciting business, and to
prevent the occupying of other places for such
purpose, ana TO NIX ana prescribe pehaltes LOT the
violation OF any such ordinance or sec ION Thereon
in sum not less than ten dollars or more than
one hundred dollars, as may be designated by such
governing body.
? And be il enacted That the mayor Of any
such borough, the police justice or any Justice of
the peace of the county is hereby empowered,
upox oath affirmation made according to law 3,
that any person persons have or may have VIC
lated any section of the or nance or of the. ordi
nances Of such borough adopted under this law, to
issue process in the nature OF a summons or war
rant in action upon contract at the suit of said
borough against the person so charged which pro-
cess shall. when in the nature of warrant be re-
/ turnable forthwith and when in the nature of a
summons shall be returnable in not less than one or
more than ten days; such process shall state what
section of the ordinance is alleged to have been
violated by the defendant or defendants, and on
the return of such process, or at any time for
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| police Justice Justice of the peace shall proceed
! to hear the testimony and to determine and give
Judgment in the matter without filing any plead
| ings and copy of the ordinance alleged TO nave
been violated, certified to under the hand of the
clerk of said borough, shall be taken as full anc
legal proof of the existence OF such ordinance
and that all the requirements of law in relation t.
the Ordaining, publishing and making the SAINT
81 as ia make the same legal and binding, have
been comp led with, unless the contrary be shown
and if the said mayor, police Justice or Justice o.
the peace shall find the defendant guilty, he hal
| give judgment for the penalty mentioned in tn,
ordinance or section of the ordinance violated
and such costs are allowed in the Justices cour
for like proceedings and shall also at the sam
time and part of said judgment sentence thu
defendant, in default of the payment Of the judg
ment and costs, to the county jail for any pero'
not exceeding twenty days, in bis discretion eth
er party shall have right of appeal to the court
common pleas at any time within ten days from
the date of Judgment, upon giving bond in dou
BILE the amount and costs, with two responsible
freehOlders, securities, residents of the county
commitment. however, may issue at any tim
before the taking al appear, 1Or the Imprisonment
of the defendant which shall be vacated either b.
appeal or by payment of the Judgment and costs
the summons, warrant, commitment and all othe
wrts herein requiring serving may be served b.
either the marshal of said borough or and con
stable
3. And be il enacted, That where the mayor, pc
lice justice or Justice of the peace has jurisdiction
no Judgment rendered in any suit brought for tn
recovery of any penalty under this act unde
any ordinance passed by authority hereof shall b
removed to the supreme court or circuit court, b
eertiorari or otherwise, for the correction of an
supposed error therein, but the party thinkin
himself aggreved shall have relief upon the ap
peal only, and that both as to matter of law an
matter OF fact.
4. And be it enacted, That any borough Of thi
state shall have the right to pass and enforce ordi
nances under the provisions of this act, notwith
standing that powers for like purpose may hav
been delegated to them in the act under whic
they are incorporated or the supplements thereto
5. And be it enacted, That this act shall tax
effect Immediately.
ADproyed NAV /, 1894