[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 17]
Every application for any license under this article and every
license granted under this article shall state, in addition to such
other information as may be required, the full name of the licensee
and the accurate description and the exact location of the premises
upon which the licensee proposes to carry on business thereunder.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 4; amended by Ord. No. 1353,
§ 2; Ord. No. 1714, § 2; Ord. No. 3053, 9-2-1986,
§ 2; Ord. No. 3518, 9-30-1997, § 14]
The annual fee for a plenary retail consumption license issued under this article shall be as set forth in Appendix III of Chapter 2.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, §§ 5, 8; Ord. No. 1998,
9-6-1983, §§ 1, 2]
(a)
No more than 15 plenary retail consumption licenses shall be outstanding
in the Township at the same time. This shall not prevent the renewal
of such licenses outstanding on September 1, 1942, or the transfer
of such licenses and the renewal of licenses which have been transferred.
(b)
Nothing in this section shall prevent the issuance of plenary retail
consumption licenses in excess of the above quota to bona fide restaurants.
Such licenses shall be conditioned that the premises for which they
are issued shall continue to be operated as a bona fide restaurant
and that such licenses shall not be transferred to other premises
which are not operated as a bona fide restaurant. For the purposes
of this article, a "restaurant" is hereby defined as an establishment
regularly and principally used for the purpose of providing meals
to the public, having an adequate kitchen equipped for the preparing,
cooking and serving of food for its customers, having a room or rooms
all on one floor level containing an aggregate of not less than 1,000
square feet of floor space devoted solely to the use of guests for
purpose of dining, including no room with less than 150 square feet
of floor space exclusive of any space used for kitchen, pantry, storage
or any other purpose than dining and being sufficiently equipped with
tables, chairs and other equipment to accommodate at one sitting not
less than 50 persons, and in which no other business except such as
is incidental to such establishment is conducted.
(c)
Nothing in this section shall prevent the issuance of a plenary retail
consumption license in excess of the above quota to a person who operates
a hotel or motel containing at least 100 guest sleeping rooms within
this municipality and who operates the sale of alcoholic beverages
on the premises. Such licenses shall be conditioned that the premises
for which they are issued shall operate and continue to be operated
as a hotel or motel containing at least 100 rooms for guests and that
such license shall not be transferred to any other person for premises
which are not operated as a hotel or motel containing at least 100
rooms for guests. For the purposes of this article, a "hotel" or "motel"
is hereby defined as an establishment regularly and principally used
for the purpose of supplying sleeping accommodations for pay to transient
guests.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 8; Ord. No. 1072]
No more than two restaurant plenary retail licenses shall be
outstanding in the Township at the same time. This section shall not
prevent the renewal of such licenses outstanding on November 4, 1958.
The following regulations shall apply to all restaurants holding plenary
retail licenses under this article:
(a)
The gift or sale of food or any alcoholic beverage below cost or
the offering in any manner whatsoever of any other inducement by the
licensee, his servants, agents or employees to encourage the consumption
of alcoholic beverages is prohibited.
(b)
No alcoholic beverage shall be sold or served to or consumed by guests
in any part of the licensed premises except the room or rooms furnished
and used as dining room space. There shall be no alcoholic beverage
bar in any dining room.
(c)
The room in which the licensee obtains or prepares alcoholic beverages for guests shall be so located as to comply fully with all the provisions of § 4-19, and no guest or other person shall be admitted thereto, except the licensee, his employees, including any person temporarily employed for necessary construction, alteration or repairs, and officers of the law duly authorized to enforce municipal, state or federal regulations regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages or to make investigations relative thereto.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 10]
No more than one plenary retail consumption license shall be
granted to one person.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 20; amended by Ord. No. 1950,
5-18-1982, § 2; Ord. No. 3804, 4-1-2004, § 1]
(a)
No person shall be employed in the sale or serving of liquor or food
in any licensed premises under this article until his name and address
have first been registered with and approved by the Township Manager.
(b)
All license holders and their employees shall, prior to employment
or ownership, be fingerprinted under the supervision of the Chief
of Police.
(c)
All license holders and their employees shall be required to obtain
identification cards issued by the Police Department. Each such card
shall contain the photograph and signature of the person to whom it
is issued affixed thereto. The identification card shall be valid
for the year of issue. It shall be the obligation of the holder of
the card to present same upon request by a police officer at the licensed
premises.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 11]
The holder of a plenary retail consumption license under this
article shall actually be in charge of the management and direction
of the business conducted under such license, and all purchases for
the business carried on under such license shall be made in the name
of the licensee.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 12]
All premises in which alcoholic beverages are sold, distributed
or dispensed shall be lighted sufficiently at all times and shall
be so arranged that a full view of the interior may be had from the
public thoroughfare or from the entrance through which the public
is admitted or from the ground outside of and immediately adjoining
the premises, to which free and open access may be had at any time
by any person desiring the same. There shall be no obstruction to
such view higher than 4 1/2 feet above the sidewalk level or
the level of the approach immediately adjacent to any entrance through
which the public is admitted or the level of the ground outside of
and immediately adjoining the premises. The room containing the open
bar shall have a floor space of not less than 400 square feet.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 13]
No alcoholic beverages shall be sold for consumption on the
premises in any room to which the public is not freely admitted.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 4-21, Hostesses prohibited,
of the 1965 Code, adopted as R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 14, and
§ 4-22, Prohibited advertising, of the 1965 Code, adopted
as R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 15, were repealed 5-18-1982 by Ord.
No. 1950. Former § 4-23 of the 1965 Code was repealed by
Ord. No. 1499, § 1.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 19; amended by Ord. No. 1950,
5-18-1982, § 3; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1,
General Provisions, Art. II)]
No licensee or agent or employee of the licensee shall sell,
deliver or serve nor suffer or permit the sale, delivery or service
of any alcoholic beverages, directly or indirectly, to any person
under legal age for the purchase of alcoholic beverages or to intoxicated
persons, nor permit such persons to congregate in or about the licensed
premises.
[1]
For state law as to selling alcoholic beverages to minors,
see N.J.S.A. 33:1-77. As to purchases by minors, see N.J.S.A. 33:1-81.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 4, § 16; amended at time of adoption
of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
All premises upon which alcoholic beverages are sold under a
retail plenary consumption license shall be furnished, supplied or
equipped with separate toilets for men and women, which shall meet
with the approval of the Health Officer.
