The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-15
ORDINANCE NO. 2.


An Ordinance governing, regulating and fix
ing fees of Mercantile Licenses in the City
of Absecon, New Jersey, and regulating
the business licensed.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common
Council of the City of Absecon, that no per-
son or persons, firm or corporation, shall
engage in the carrying on of any store, bus
mess, trade or occupation in the City of
Absecon, N. j., nor aid or assist an employee,
clerk or otherwise in carrying such bus
or store, or in using any wagon, vehicle,
stand. store or other place or thing, nor sell
or offer for sale any goods or things for
which a license is required by the terms of
this ordinance unless a license as herein
provided for shall have been first obtained
therefor.
Section 2. Be it further ordained, that
all license fees shall be due and payable to
the City Clerk at his office on the first day
of January of each year, the term thereof
commencing on January first and expiring
on December thirty-frst thereafter.
Section 3. Be it further ordained, that
the license fees shall be paid annually as
above provided to the City of Absecon for
maintaining and operating stores for the
conduct of and conducting the business, trade
or occupation herein named, at the place to
be designated in the license certificate issued
therefor, If so designated, and shall be as
follows, (the names used being a designa-
ton of the businesses, trades or occupations
required to be licensed) :
supplies and accessories. s 800
Boarding houses, cottages, hotels, inns
and taverns or other buildings used
purposes LOO
hire 500
every sign $500
Bread, pastry, ice cream and confec-
tionery 500
Banks for banking business. ..... 1000
Butter, eggs and poultry ........... 800
Coal or ice wagons or carts, each $50
Coal yards, lumber, feed and hay. 1900
Cigars, tobacco and candy, retail. 80. 800
Cigars, barber shop, pool parlor, shoe
shining parlor, selling from case
Delivery automobiles or wagons used
to deliver goods in any business
hereby licensed 500
than above 1906
Express, wagons or automobile, each. 500
lighthouses, flowers and plants, each.. 800
Hardware, tinware, paints, oils. 1000
Junk dealer gathering junk by wagon
or otherwise junk meaning scrap or
old iron, waste, cotton, odds. and
ends of copper, brass, lead and other
materials or articles of any kind
that are useless for their original
purpose, for the purpose of sale or
otherwise 800
ons, or automobiles, each. 500
MIX wagons, each .............. 300
Meats 500
Delivery wagons or automobiles selling
oils, gasoline, petroleum wagons,
etc, Wholesale or retail. ........ 1000
POol and billiard tables, each 49,. 500
Restaurants 800
Sewing machines 800
Any place of business not hereinabove
specified 500
Section 4. Be it further ordained, that
all licenses issued between the first day of
July and the thirty-hrst day of December
following in any year, shall be issued for
one-half the fees mentioned in Section Three
hereof, said licenses to expire on the thirty
first day of December in each year, in ac-
ROTda Dpa with tho nrnuiGinne of CaPtiOn TuvO
of this ordinance.
Section 3. Be it further ordained, that
the fees herein imposed for such licenses are
imposed for revenue.
Section 6. Be it further ordained, that
any person or persons or corporation who
shall violate any of the provisions of this
ordnance snail, upon CONVICTION Thereon pc
fore any Justice of the Peace of Atlantic
County, be punished by a fine not exceeding
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each
offence, and in default of the payment of
such fine, shall be confined in the City or
County Jail for a period not exceeding thirty
days, in tina discretion of said Justice of the
Peace that is to say the said Justice of the
Peace before whom the offender is tried
exceeding the maximum fine therein provid-
ed, and in default of the payment thereof, to
imprison the said offender for any term not
exceeding the maximum term hereinabove
provided.
Section 7. Be it further ordained, that
the Mayor. or other proper officer, be and he
Il dulIOIiLtu duu uiTBtleu 10 use SUCH Oh
the police force of the City as is necessary
to execute and enforce this ordinance, and to
enforce all necessary and lawful police reg
~ulations that may best facilitate the carrying
on of the business of cars used for local
passenger traffic and as may best protect and
facilitate the carrying on of the several bust
nesses, trades and occupations licensed by
bthis ordinance.
Section 8. Be it further ordained, that
no person shall be required to take out a
license in order to sell the produce of his
or her farm.
Section 9. Be it further ordained, that all
ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsist-
ent with the terms of this ordinance be and
the same are hereby repealed to the extent
of such inconsistencies and that this ordi-
nance shall take effect Immediately.
Passed at a regular meeting of Council
held Oct. 20, 1919.
E. c. BATES, President.
Attest:
SAMUEL JOHNSON. City Clerk.
Approved.
HARRY MATTSON. sR.. Mayor.