File #: 13-1306    Version: 1 Name: Amendments to the Restaurant Ordinance
Type: Ordinance Status: Tabled
File created: 6/28/2013 In control: Municipal Council and City Clerk
On agenda: 7/3/2013 Final action:
Title: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 8, BUSINESSES AND OCCUPATIONS, CHAPTER 12 RESTAURANTS AND RETAIL SALES AND SERVICE AMENDING, SECTIONS 1 DEFINITIONS AND 6A, HOURS OF OPERATION OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (2000) AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED, CHANGING THE DEFINITION OF TAKE OUT RESTAURANT, REQUIRE ARMED SECURITY GUARD AT CERTAIN HOURS AND IMPOSE FINES FOR VIOLATION OF THE HOURS OF OPERATION BY OWNERS OF RETAIL STORES AND RESTAURANTS. On the instruction of the sponser this legislation is being submitted to Council without Legistar review
Title
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 8, BUSINESSES AND OCCUPATIONS, CHAPTER 12 RESTAURANTS AND RETAIL SALES AND SERVICE AMENDING, SECTIONS 1 DEFINITIONS AND 6A, HOURS OF OPERATION OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (2000) AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED, CHANGING THE DEFINITION OF TAKE OUT RESTAURANT, REQUIRE ARMED SECURITY GUARD AT CERTAIN HOURS AND IMPOSE FINES FOR VIOLATION OF THE HOURS OF OPERATION BY OWNERS OF RETAIL STORES AND RESTAURANTS.
On the instruction of the sponser this legislation is being submitted to Council without Legistar review
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8:12-1. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter:
Carhop service shall mean delivery service between the restaurant or other place where cooked food or beverages, or both, are served and delivered by the owner or operator, its agents or employees, to the occupants of automobiles parked on, in or about the restaurant and the like, premises, or adjacent premises or thoroughfare, for consumption thereat.
Director shall mean the Director of the Department of Finance and/or his designee.
Downtown Family Restaurant and Entertainment District shall mean a designation within the City of Newark for family dining and entertainment bounded by the northern border shall begin at the northerly side of Clay Street from the bank of the Passaic River, west to Broad Street, south on the westerly side of Broad Street to Lackawanna Avenue, west to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The western border shall run south along the westerly side of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard from Lackawanna Avenue to Spruce Street. The southern border shall run east on the southerly side of Spruce Street and continue on Lincoln Park across Broad Street to the southerly side of Chestnut Street and continue to New Jersey Railroad Avenue. The eastern border shall run northeast along the westerly side of New Jersey Railroad Avenue to Market Street, northeast along the westerly side of Raymond Plaza East to the...

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