[Amended 12-11-1975 by Ord. No. 75-10; 3-8-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-3]
All license fees shall be due and payable on the first day of January in each year, provided that for an application for a license submitted after the first day of January in each year all license fees shall be due and payable upon such submittance. A license holder’s failure to pay the applicable license renewal fee by the first day of February in each year shall result in a fine of $100, exclusive from and not including the applicable license fee.
[Amended 12-11-1975 by Ord. No. 75-10[1]]
All licenses shall commence as of the first day of January in each year and shall expire on the 31st day of December of the same calendar year, provided that any license issued on or after the first day of July of any year shall commence as of the first day of July of that year and shall expire on the 31st day of December of that same calendar year; provided, further, that a special summer license may be granted by approval of Borough Council, said license commencing as of the first day of May of any year and shall expire as of the 30th day of September of the same calendar year. No license provided for by this chapter shall be transferred to another location or to another person. No license provided for by this chapter shall be used for any other business other than that for which the license was issued.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
A duplicate license may be issued by the Borough Clerk to replace any license previously issued, which license has been lost, stolen, defaced or destroyed, without any willful conduct on the part of the licensee, upon the filing by the licensee of an affidavit sworn to before a notary public of the State of New Jersey attesting to such fact and the payment to the Borough Clerk of a fee of 50% of the original license fee.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
No rebate or refund of any license fee or any part thereof shall be made by reason of retirement of licensee from business or by reason of the nonuse of such license for all or any portion of the licensed year, or by reason of a change of location or business or by reason of fire or other accident or other casualty rendering the use of such license ineffective.
Each license issued hereunder shall state upon its face the following:
A. 
The name of the license and any other name under which such business is to be conducted.
B. 
The address of each business to be licensed.
C. 
The amount of license fee therefor.
D. 
The dates of issuance and expiration thereof.
E. 
Such other information as the Borough Clerk shall determine.
Every licensee under this chapter shall:
A. 
Permit all reasonable inspections of his business.
B. 
Permit access to the licensed premises at all reasonable times by the Borough Clerk.
C. 
Ascertain and at all times comply with all laws and regulations applicable to such licensed business.
D. 
Avoid all forbidden improper, unlawful or unnecessary practices, businesses or conditions which do or may affect the public health, morals or welfare.
E. 
Refrain from operating the licensed business on premises after expiration of his license and during the period when his license is revoked or suspended.
F. 
Post and maintain his license upon the licensed premises in a place where it may be seen at all times. Moreover, in the case of cigarette vending machines, juke boxes or licenses herein provided for shall be posted permanently and conspicuously at the location of the machine or device in the premises wherein the same is to be operated or maintained to be operated, and shall have affixed thereto any insignia delivered for use therewith upon the outside of the same where it may be seen at all times. Moreover, in the case of cigarette vending machines, juke boxes, vending machines, and mechanical amusement devices, the license or licenses herein provided for shall be posted permanently and conspicuously at the location of the machine or device in the premises wherein the same is to be operated or maintained to be operated, and shall have affixed thereto any insignia delivered for use therewith upon the outside of the same so that it may be seen at all times.
G. 
Carry and display at all times his license and identification to any person requesting the same, if license is a transient merchant; itinerant merchant, itinerant vendor, peddler, solicitor, canvasser or hand bill distributor.
H. 
Not loan, sell, give or assign to any other person or allow any other person to use and display or to destroy, damage, or remove or to have in his possession, except as authorized by the Borough Clerk or by law, any license or insignia which has been issued to said licensee.
[Amended 12-11-1975 by Ord. No. 75-10; 11-9-1989 by Ord. No. 89-10; 1-11-1990 by Ord. No. 89-15[1]]
The license fees to be paid annually, unless otherwise specified, for conducting the business or businesses herein named at the premises or premises to be designated in the license or licenses issued hereunder, shall be as follows:
Business
License Fee
Amusements, such as rides, sideshows, auto, skating rinks, galleries
$400
Antique store
$75
Auction (each day)
$25
Auction store
$75
Automobile agency or showroom (new and/or used cars)
$100
Automobile paint body shop
$100
Automobile repair shop and or garage
$100
Automobile service station
$100
Bakery, retail or wholesale (baking on premises)
$100
Bakery or pastry shop
$100
Beauty and or barbershop
$50 (one chair)
$10 (each additional chair)
Billboard advertising
$100 (per sign)
Boarding, lodging, motel, hotel house
$50 plus $5 per unit
Burial vaults, caskets and monuments
$35
Caterer
$150
Circus or carnival
$300
Commercial signs
$100 (per sign)
Concerts
20 (no admission fee, per event)
25 (admission fee, per occasion)
Concrete plant
$60
Confectioner, ice cream, soft drink wholesale or retail
$100
Construction, all
$100
Delicatessen and other retail goods, not otherwise known as a "supermarket"
$100
Department store
To 3,000 square feet
$55
3,001 to 7,500
$100
7,501 to 10,000
$120
Over 10,000
$175
Drug and medical supply store commonly known as a "drugstore"
$55
Dry cleaners
$400 (plant on premises)
$50 (retail)
Dry goods and notions
$50
Electrical supplies and appliances
$50
Five and ten cent stores
$55
Florists
$50
Flowers, plants and shrubs to include hothouses
$50
Up to 2,000 square feet
$55
2,001 to 5,000
$90
Over 5,000
$150
Fruits and produce
Retail
$100
Wholesale
$100
Furniture and house furnishing, new and or secondhand
$55
Driving range (golf, baseball, golf course miniature)
$50
$75 if both at the same location
Garage and or parking lot
$50
Enclosed
$15 per slot
Open
$10 per slot
Grocery and or produce store
$100
Hardware, wholesale or retail
$50
Ice house or dealer
$50
Insurance agency
$50
Jewelry store, wholesale or retail
$50
Junk dealers, including motor vehicles
$125
Junk collectors
$75
Kennels
$25 (per animal)
Keys, locksmith
$50
Laundromat or automatic dry cleaning
$75
Laundry, collecting and distributing
$50
Laundry, plant
$400
Lumber dealer
$100
Machine shop
$100
Manufacturing
Up to 3,000 square feet
$100
3,001 to 7,500
$200
7,500 to 10,000
$300
Over 10,000
$400
Mobile home park
$250 (plus $5 per unit in excess of 50)
Meat, wholesale or retail
$100
Millinery and furnishings
$55
Natural resources sales (including but not limited to sand, gravel, topsoil and fill dirt)
$100
Newspaper publisher and or printer
$175
Newspaper or news stand dealer
$50
Office building
$100
Optical goods, wholesale or retail manufacturing
$50
100
Oil or fuel supplier or servicer
$300
Pet shop, wholesale or retail
$100
Paints, oil and paint supplies
$50
Pawnbroker
$125
Peddling and soliciting
Registration
$25
License
$300
Photo supplies and or photographic establishments
$50
Phrenologists, palmistry or fortune-telling
$50
Pool and billiard
Hall
$100
Tables
$25 per
Radio and television stores, including but not limited to audio and video equipment and or service
$55
Real estate agency
$50
Recycling business
$300
Restaurants and diners and other eating establishments (except premises otherwise possessing an alcohol beverage control license)
Seating capacity up to 25
$100
26 to 75
$100
76 to 150
$100
Over 150
$125
Roller rink
$140
Seafood business, wholesale or retail
$100
Secondhand furniture and or electrical goods
$55
Septic cleaning
$100
Shoe store, wholesale or retail
$50
Shoe repair and supplies
$50
Stationery wholesale or retail
$50
Steel construction
$400
Stores other than classified herein
$75
Supermarket
Up to 4,000 square feet
$100
4,001 to 8,000
$200
8,001 to 10,000
$300
Over 10,000
$100
Sporting goods store, wholesale, retail and or service
$50
Storage house or warehouse or place for regular storage of goods (perishable or nonperishable)
Up to 1,000 square feet
$100
1,001 to 8,000
$200
8,001 to 15,000
$300
Over 15,000
$400
Tailoring
$50
Taxidermist
$75
Theaters, cinemas and show houses, concert halls, dance halls and other places of theatrical performances
$120
Tire sales, repairs and or service (wholesale or retail
$100
Truck terminal and or garage
$400
Upholsterer
$100
Wholesale dealers and or distributers
$75
Other businesses not herein classified
$75
Tattooing and or body piercing
$100
Taxi owner
$50 per vehicle
Taxi driver
$5 per driver
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).