[Adopted 6-30-1940; amended 6-27-1941]
The Township Committee of the Township of Readington
shall not be obligated to issue any license for the sale of any alcoholic
beverages whatsoever, but may do so at its discretion.
[Amended 5-15-1956; 10-4-2004 by Ord. No. 34-2004]
A.
Licenses.
(1)
Plenary retail consumption licenses. The total number
of plenary retail consumption licenses outstanding in and for said
Township of Readington shall not exceed seven in number. Licensed
premises shall be on properties located on or within 500 feet of New
Jersey State Highway Routes No. 28, 523, 22 or 202, as the same run
through the said Township of Readington in the Village Commercial
and Business Zones.
(2)
Plenary retail distribution licenses. The total number
of plenary retail distribution licenses outstanding in and for the
Township of Readington shall not exceed two in number.
(3)
The holders of the each of the above classes of licenses
shall be entitled to such privileges and be subject to such obligations
as are prescribed by the Act and the rules and regulations made pursuant
thereto.
B.
Location. No license issued hereunder shall be located
or utilized at a premises within 400 feet as measured from the nearest
point of entrance of the premises sought to be licensed to the nearest
point of entrance of any elementary, secondary or preschool or house
of worship, except that such four-hundred-foot distance shall not
apply to premises when such are separated by a four-lane state highway
from an elementary, secondary or preschool or house of worship. This
provision shall be prospective in nature.
[Added 10-4-2004 by Ord. No. 34-2004; amended 5-2-2005 by Ord. No. 15-2005]
A.
FAMILY
PERSON
For the purposes of this section the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated.
Immediate family (spouse, children, parents, in-laws or siblings)
as that term is interpreted by the State Alcoholic Beverage Control
Commission.
Any natural person or association of natural persons, association,
trust company, partnership, corporation, organization, or the manager,
agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them, as set forth in
N.J.S.A. 33:2-2 et seq., and any amendments thereto. For purposes
of this section, unless interpreted or promulgated by the State of
New Jersey or federal law to be otherwise, a “family”
is not included within the term “association of natural persons.”
B.
No more than one retail license, whether it be consumption,
distribution or otherwise, shall be granted to any person in the municipality.
However, this provision shall not operate to disqualify a guardian,
executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or any other fiduciary
or court officer from obtaining or holding more than one license in
different official capacities.
C.
With respect to corporations, if any individual stockholder
holding 10% or more of the stock would fail to qualify as an individual
applicant in all respects, then no license of any class shall be granted.
With respect to partnerships, organizations and associations, if
any one partner or member of an organization or association would
not qualify as an individual applicant in all respects, then no license
of any class shall be granted to the partnership, organization or
association, as the case may be.
[Added 10-4-2004 by Ord. No. 34-2004]
All alcoholic beverages of any nature whatsoever
shall be sold and dispensed on premises which shall be in plain view
of the public, and the place of sale thereof shall not be concealed
by screens or otherwise.
[Amended 5-7-1968; 12-18-1972; 5-18-1981]
A.
No alcoholic beverages shall be sold and no alcoholic
beverages shall be consumed in, at or upon any licensed premises in
said Township of Readington except between the hours of 6:00 a.m.
and the succeeding 2:00 a.m., Monday through Saturday, and between
the hours of 12:00 noon on Sunday and 2:00 a.m. on the succeeding
Monday; provided, however, that alcoholic beverages may be sold and
consumed until 5:00 a.m. on January 1 of each year.
B.
Nothing herein shall be construed to create the sale
or delivery by licensees of any alcoholic beverage at retail in its
original container for consumption off the licensed premises between
the hours of 12:00 noon and 10:00 p.m. on Sundays.
C.
Furthermore, nothing herein shall be construed to
prohibit the removal of an alcoholic beverage in its original or open
container from retail licensed premises between the hours of 12:00
noon and 10:00 p.m. on Sundays.
D.
No retail distribution licensee shall allow, permit
or suffer the sale, service or delivery of any alcoholic beverage
at retail in its original container for consumption off the licensed
premises before 10:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m. on Sunday.
[Added 10-2-1995 by Ord. No. 28-95]
[Amended 11-15-1954; 5-15-1956; 5-4-1970; 12-18-1972; 8-2-1976; 4-21-1980; 5-18-1981; 10-4-1999 by Ord. No.
20-99; 4-3-2006 by Ord. No. 15-2006; 4-21-2008 by Ord. No.
11-2008; 7-21-2008 by Ord. No. 21-2008; 2-22-2011 by Ord. No.
01-2011]
The fees for alcoholic beverage licenses shall
be as follows:
A.
For consumption and distribution licenses: $2,500
(plus the applicable state fee to the Division of Alcoholic Beverage
Control).
[Amended 5-6-2013 by Ord.
No. 10-2013; 3-18-2019 by Ord. No. 07-2019]
B.
For club licenses: $150 (plus the applicable state
fee to the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control).
[Amended 12-18-1972]
There shall not be employed by any person in
said Township of Readington any person under the age for purchasing
beverages to serve, sell or dispense alcoholic beverages of any kind
whatsoever.
[Amended 12-18-1972]
No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, served
or dispensed to any person under the age for purchasing alcoholic
beverages.
The Township Committee of the Township of Readington
shall have the power to revoke by resolution any license granted to
any person by said Township Committee if such person violates any
of the provisions of this article or any act of Legislature covering
the sale, use, transportation or regulation of alcoholic beverages;
and the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be in addition
to any other such regulations and shall not, by implication or otherwise,
exclude any other such regulations.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 66-9, Required
toilet facilities, which immediately followed this section, was deleted
10-4-1999 by Ord. No. 20-99.
