This article is for the purpose of fixing license fees, limiting the number of licenses and regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages in the Borough of Bellmawr in the County of Camden, in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq., as amended and supplemented, and the rules and regulations applicable thereto and promulgated or to be promulgated as provided therein.
It shall be unlawful to sell or distribute alcoholic beverages in the Borough of Bellmawr in the County of Camden otherwise than as provided in this article or said New Jersey Statutes Annotated and rules and regulations or without a license previously applied for and granted pursuant to the provisions of this article or said statutes, rules and regulations.
Every license shall be exposed to public view in a conspicuous place, in the place licensed, and any omission so to do shall be presumptive evidence that the place where alcoholic beverages are being sold is unlicensed.
Any license issued pursuant to this article may be suspended or revoked for a violation of any of the provisions of this article or for violation of any of the provisions of the New Jersey Statutes Annotated, Title 33, or any of the rules and regulations promulgated or to be promulgated as provided therein.
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No more than three plenary retail consumption licenses shall be in effect in this municipality at any one time.
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No more than five plenary retail distribution licenses shall be in effect in this municipality at any one time.
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No new licenses shall be issued for any premises within 400 feet of any other licensed premises, and in the event of the transfer of any existing license, no transfer shall be permitted to any premises within 400 feet of any existing licensed premises. The four-hundred-foot distance shall be measured in the normal way that a pedestrian would properly walk from the nearest entrance of licensed premises to the nearest entrance of the premises sought to be licensed.
All premises in which alcoholic beverages shall be sold or otherwise dispensed shall have reasonable access to light from the public highway, and the interior of such premises shall be fully exposed to public view at all times.
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The fee for a plenary retail distribution license shall be as provided in Chapter 210, Fees.
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The fee for a plenary retail consumption license shall be as provided in Chapter 210, Fees.
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No plenary retail consumption licensee shall sell or allow, permit or suffer the sale of any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on any weekday or between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on any Sunday. On New Year's Eve, the hour of 3:00 a.m. shall be extended to 5:00 a.m.
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No plenary retail distribution licensee shall sell or allow, permit or suffer the sale of any alcoholic beverages between the hours of 10:00 p.m. Saturday night and 9:00 a.m. the following Sunday or from 5:00 p.m. Sunday until 9:00 a.m. the following Monday morning. In years in which Christmas Eve and/or New Year's Eve falls on Sunday, the retail distribution licensee shall be permitted to remain open on that Sunday, Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve, from 9:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
No patron shall be permitted to remain upon the licensed premises after 3:30 a.m. on any weekday or Sunday or after 5:30 a.m. on New Year's Eve.
Any person violating any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days, or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof, in the discretion of a court of competent jurisdiction. Each and every day that such violation shall continue shall be a further and separate offense under the terms of this article, subject to the penalties herein prescribed.