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Timestamp: 2020-06-04 12:31:19
Document Index: 45977520

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 29']

Township of Mansfield, NJ Motor Vehicle Sales and Storage
§ 29-1 License required; application; prior notification.
§ 29-3 Sum to accompany application.
§ 29-4 Bond.
§ 29-5 Inspection by police; right of entry.
§ 29-6 Application; investigation and approval by Chief of Police.
§ 29-7 Hours; lighting; purchasing from minors.
§ 29-8 Holding of certain automobiles or parts.
§ 29-9 Inspection by interested persons; concealment.
§ 29-10 Storage or sale on vacant lots; license required.
§ 29-11 Separate license required for each location.
§ 29-12 Assignability; transfer.
§ 29-13 Use of streets or sidewalks.
§ 29-14 Identification marks on vehicles.
§ 29-15 Licenses subject to rules and regulations.
§ 29-16 Owner's consent to use site for business.
§ 29-17 Conditions of license acceptance.
§ 29-18 Time limit to secure license.
§ 29-19 Purpose.
§ 29-20 Term of license.
§ 29-21 Violations and penalties.
§ 29-22 Severability.
§ 29-23 Repealer.
§ 29-24 When effective.
Chapter 29 Motor Vehicle Sales and Storage
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Mansfield 12-30-1963 by Ord. No. 1963-4. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person, firm or corporation shall exercise, carry on or be engaged in the trade or business of secondhand automobile dealer or secondhand automobile parts dealer, or store or expose for sale used or new motor vehicles in the manner set forth in § 29-10 hereof, within the corporate limits of the Township of Mansfield, without first having obtained a license so to do in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
Every applicant for any said license shall make application therefor to the Township Committee of said Township; and every said applicant shall cause to be filed with the Clerk of said Township, at least seven days before such application shall be made, an application therefor in writing signed by said applicant or applicants, which application shall set forth:
The name and place of residence of each applicant; if any such applicant shall be a partnership, the name and place of residence of each partner; and if any such applicant shall be a corporation, the name and place of residence of each officer and of the registered agent thereof.
The period of residence of each applicant, or, if the applicant be a corporation, the period of residence of the person or persons who intend to be the managers or in charge of such business, in said Township, if any of said persons reside there; his place or their respective places of previous employment and whether any said applicant, manager or person to be in charge has ever been convicted of a crime, and if so, when, where, of what crime and before what court.
The detailed nature of the business intended to be conducted.
A detailed description of the place where any said business is intended to be conducted.
Every such applicant shall deposit with the said Clerk at the time of filing of any such application a sum of money in cash equal in amount to the entire license fee, which sum shall be returned to said applicant in the event that the license applied for shall not be granted.
Every such applicant shall, at least seven days prior to the making of said application to said Township Committee, cause notice of said application and of the time when and the place where it will be made to said Committee, to be published at least once in a newspaper circulating in said Township, and shall also, at least seven days prior to the making of said application, cause notice thereof as aforesaid in writing to be given either personally or by registered mail, to each owner of, and to each tenant or person in possession of, real property situate within 500 feet of the land upon which said business is proposed to be conducted. If the residence or address of any said owner, tenant or person in possession shall be unknown, said notice shall be sent by registered mail, addressed to the last known address of said person appearing upon the tax records of said Township. Said notice shall be given or mailed, in the case of an infant or incompetent, to the guardian of such person; when the title to any real property shall be held in trust, to the trustee; and when the title to any such real property shall be held by joint tenants, tenants in common or tenants by the entireties, to any one of said tenants.
The term "secondhand automobile dealer," as used in this chapter, shall be construed to mean any person, firm or corporation engaged in, or who or which shall engage in, the business of buying and selling secondhand or used motor vehicles; and the term "secondhand automobile parts dealer," as used in this chapter, shall be construed to mean any person, firm or corporation engaged in, or who shall engage in, the business of buying and selling secondhand or used parts for motor vehicles; and the fact that any person, firm or corporation maintains and conducts, or shall maintain and conduct, an agency or subagency for any automobile manufacturer shall not exempt any such agent or subagent from the provisions of this chapter if such agent or subagent is engaged in, or shall engage in, the business of buying and selling secondhand or used motor vehicles, or secondhand or used parts for motor vehicles, or both of said businesses.
Either of the terms "secondhand automobile" and "used automobile" as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean every motor vehicle, title to or possession of which has been transferred from the person who first acquired it from the manufacturer or dealer, and so used as to become what is commonly known as "secondhand" or "used" within the ordinary meaning thereof, and includes every motor vehicle other than a new motor vehicle, which is fit for use for highway transportation or which, by ordinary and reasonable adjustment, repair or replacement of parts thereon or attachments thereto, will become fit for such use, which is being maintained in fit condition for, and which is intended for, a resumption of such use, and from which no part thereof or attachment thereto shall have been removed excepting such part or attachment as shall have been removed temporarily for repair to or replacement of such part or attachment.
Every person or firm who, or corporation which, shall apply for the granting or renewal of the license to conduct the business of secondhand automobile dealer and secondhand automobile parts dealer, and to store or expose for sale any used or new motor vehicles according to the provisions of § 29-10 hereof, required by the provisions of § 29-1 hereof, shall, if such person, firm or corporation shall maintain and conduct a bona fide agency or subagency for any automobile manufacturer, pay to the Clerk of said Township at the time of making said application the sum of $25, and every person or firm who, or corporation which, shall apply for the granting or renewal of any said license shall, if any such person, firm or corporation shall not maintain and conduct a bona fide agency or subagency for any automobile manufacturer, pay to the Clerk of said Township at the time of making said application the sum of $1,000; provided, however, that if said application shall be made by any person, firm or corporation as last aforesaid on or after July 1 of the year for the remainder of which said license is sought, such person, firm or corporation last aforesaid shall pay to the said Clerk at the time of making said application the sum of $500.
Before any person, firm or corporation shall be licensed as a secondhand automobile dealer, such applicant shall file with the Township Clerk a bond in the sum of $1,000 with a duly licensed surety company as surety thereon, such surety to be approved by the Township Committee and said bond to be approved as to form and execution by the Township Counsel; and before any person, firm or corporation shall be licensed as a secondhand automobile parts dealer, such applicant shall file with the Township Clerk a bond in the sum of $1,000 with a licensed surety company as surety thereon, such surety to be approved by the Township Committee and said bond to be approved as to form and execution by the Township Counsel; conditioned that such licensee shall observe the ordinances of said Township in violation to the business to do which such applicant has applied for license; and that such licensee will conduct said business in conformity therewith and will account for and deliver to any person legally entitled thereto any automobile or automobile parts which of such licensee or in lieu thereof may have come into the possession such licensee shall pay in money to such person or persons the reasonable value thereof.
Any person, firm or corporation licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall at all time during the term of said license allow the Chief of Police or any member of said Police Department of the Township of Mansfield to enter the premises where said licensee is carrying on such business, for the purpose of inspecting such premises and inspecting the automobiles or automobile parts or license plates therein for the purpose of locating goods suspected or alleged to have been stolen or otherwise improperly disposed of.
Before such person, firm or corporation shall be licensed to conduct such business in said Township, a copy of the application for such license shall be delivered to the Chief of Police of said Township; the Chief of Police or any member of the Police Department shall investigate the applicant and report the result of such investigation to the Township Committee, together with the approval or the disapproval of such application by said Chief of Police; provided, however, that no person shall be licensed under the terms hereof who may at any time prior to the issuance of said license have been duly convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of having received stolen goods or of any infraction of the terms and provisions of this chapter or any of the ordinances of the Township of Mansfield regulating the business to do which said applicant has applied for a license.
No person, firm or corporation licensed under the terms hereof shall keep his office or place of business open for the transaction of business of any day of the week before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m., when all lighting, with the exception of safety lighting, shall be extinguished; nor shall any person licensed under the terms hereof purchase or receive any automobile or automobile parts of any nature from any minor.
Whenever the Chief of Police of the Mansfield Township Police Department shall notify any licensee hereunder not to sell or permit to be removed any automobile or automobile part purchased by any such licensee, the same shall not be permitted to be removed nor shall the same be sold until such time as may be determined by the Mansfield Township Police Department; provided that such time shall in no case exceed the period of six months from the date of such notifications.
All automobiles, parts or accessories thereof coming into the possession of any licensee under the terms hereof shall at all times be open to the inspection and right of examination of any person claiming to have been the owner thereof or claiming to have had any interest therein, when such person is accompanied by a police officer of the Mansfield Township Police Department; nor shall any licensee under the terms hereof hide, conceal or stow away any of the said property in his possession from any member of the Mansfield Township Police Department.
From and after the passage of this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use any vacant lot or property or any portion thereof outside of a building for the storage or exposure for sale of used or new motor vehicles without first having obtained a license therefor from the Township Clerk as hereinbefore provided.
Wherever two or more motor vehicles are stored on any such vacant lot or land for sale, whether adjacent to a duly established garage, service station or any other motor vehicle business or not, the license as herein provided shall be required, and a separate license shall be required for each separate lot or parcel of ground upon which the said business is conducted; provided, however, that where several lots are continuous to each other and the business is conducted on all of said lots, only one license shall be necessary.
The license shall authorize the licensee to conduct the said business on the lot specified in the license, shall not be transferable to another plot or lot, nor shall said license be assignable or transferable in any manner.
No motor vehicle shall be placed by the said licensee on the sidewalks or any part thereof, nor shall the said licensee use the street or any part thereof for the storage, display or sale of said motor vehicle.
No licensee or his agent shall knowingly buy, sell, receive, dispose or conceal or have in his possession any motor vehicle from which the manufacturer's serial number or any other number or identification mark has been removed, defaced, altered, covered or destroyed for the purpose of concealing the identity of such vehicle.
All licenses under this chapter shall at all times be subject to such reasonable rules as may be made by resolution from time to time by the Township Committee of the Township of Mansfield for the proper operation and regulation of the places of business named in such license.
If the applicant is not the owner of the site where the said business is to be conducted, the owner's consent to the conduct of said business shall be endorsed on the said application.
The licensee by accepting a license hereunder agrees to comply with all of the terms and conditions set forth in this chapter and all rules and regulations promulgated by the Township Committee.
Any person, firm or corporation now conducting the business herein licensed shall have 45 days after the final passage hereof in which to obtain the license herein required, and during said period this chapter shall not become operative or effective as to persons now engaged in the said business in order that they may have ample opportunity to secure the necessary license.
Each license so to be issued as above set forth shall continue for the term of one year from the first day of the preceding January, provided that any person securing such license after the first day of January in any year shall be required to pay for such license only for that portion of the calendar year for which said license is to run.
In case, for any reason, any section or any provision of this chapter shall be questioned in any court and shall be held unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not be held to affect any other section or provision of this chapter.
This chapter shall take effect immediately after publication as required by law.