10:1-4. Written announcement of discrimination; presumption


10:1-4.  Written announcement of discrimination;  presumption
    The production of any such written or printed communication, notice or advertisement, purporting to relate to any such place and to be made by any owner, lessee, proprietor, superintendent or manager thereof, shall be presumptive evidence in any civil or criminal action that the same was authorized by such person.
 
10:1-5.  Place of public accommodation, resort or amusement defined
    A place of public accommodation, resort or amusement within the meaning of this chapter shall be deemed to include any inn, tavern, road house or hotel, whether for entertainment of transient guests or accommodation of those seeking  health, recreation or rest;  any restaurant, eating house, or place where food  is sold for consumption on the premises;  any place maintained for sale of ice  cream, ice and fruit preparations or their derivatives, soda water or  confections, or where any beverages of any kind are retailed for consumption on  the premises;  any garage, any public conveyance operated on land or water, and  stations and terminals thereof; any public bathhouse, public boardwalk, public  seashore accommodation; any theater, or other place of public amusement,  motion-picture house, airdrome, music hall, roof garden, skating rink,  amusement and recreation park, fair, bowling alley, gymnasium, shooting  gallery, billiard and pool parlor;  any dispensary, clinic, hospital, public  library, kindergarten, primary and secondary school, high school, academy,  college and university, or any educational institution under the supervision of  the regents of the state of New Jersey.  Nothing contained in sections 10:1-2 to 10:1-7 of this title shall be construed to include, or to apply to, any institution, club, or place of accommodation which is in its nature distinctly  private, or to prohibit the mailing of a private communication in writing sent  in response to a specific written inquiry.
 
10:1-6.  Penalty and punishment
    Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 10:1-2 to 10:1-5 of this Title by denying to any citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens of every race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status or sex and regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status or sex, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges in said sections enumerated, or by aiding or inciting such denial, or who shall aid or incite the violation of any of the said provisions shall, for each and every violation  thereof, forfeit and pay the sum of not less than $100.00 nor more than  $500.00, to the State, to be recovered in a civil action, with costs, and shall  also, for every such violation, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon  conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $500.00, or by  imprisonment of not more than 90 days, or both.

     Amended by L.1945, c. 168, p. 587, s. 2;  L.1953, c. 10, p. 91, s. 1; L.1970,  c. 80, s. 2, eff. June 2, 1970.