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.
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.
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.