No license shall be issued except after written application
presented by the proposed licensee upon forms furnished by the Township
and after compliance with publication of notice and otherwise, as
required by law.
All applications for licenses shall set forth, in full, answers
to questions prescribed by state law and by rules and regulations
of the State Director and the governing body and shall include declarations
called for by state law.
No license shall be issued to any person not qualified under
the provision of state law and of said rules and regulations.
A.
The annual fees for licenses shall be as set forth in Chapter 240, Fees.
[Amended 8-4-1997 by Ord.
No. 97-2479]
B.
All license fees shall be paid in advance upon presentation of the
application. After issuance of a license, no refund of any portion
of the license fee shall be made except as may be authorized by N.J.S.A.
33:1-31.
All licenses shall be for a term of one year from the first
day of July in each year.
A separate license shall be required for each specific place
of business, and each license shall be effectual only for the licensed
premises mentioned therein; provided, however, that upon an application
for a transfer in the same manner as for an original application,
and upon publication of intention to transfer, in the same manner
as in the case of an original application, the governing body may
issue a transfer of such license to a different place of business
by payment of a fee of 10% of the annual license fee for such transfer.
No license shall be issued for the sale of alcoholic beverages
within 200 feet of any church or public school or private schoolhouse,
not conducted for pecuniary profit, except to manufacturers, wholesalers,
hotels, clubs and fraternal organizations which own or are actually
in possession of the licensed premises on December 6, 1933, said 200
feet to be measured in the normal way that a pedestrian would properly
walk from the nearest entrance of said church or school to the nearest
entrance of the premises sought to be licensed; provided, however,
that this prohibition may be waived at the issuance or renewal of
such license by the duly authorized governing body on authority of
such school or church, and such waiver shall be effective until the
date of the next renewal of said license, and provided also that this
prohibition shall not apply to the renewal of any license where no
such school or church was located within said prohibited distance
of said licensed premises at the time of the issuance of said license,
or as otherwise excepted by the provisions of N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq.
[Amended 9-19-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-2834]
A.
No plenary retail consumption license or plenary retail distribution
license shall be granted for or transferred to any premises, the entrance
of which is within a five-hundred-foot walking distance of the entrance
of an existing licensed premises having a license of the same classification.
[Amended 2-17-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-3125]
B.
The distance limitation in Subsection A does not apply to a hotel, motel, or restaurant serving alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, or to licensed premises of different classifications (consumption license/distribution license). The Township Committee, in its discretion, may waive the distance limitation in Subsection A as to the relocation/transfer of any liquor license whose premises have been taken or acquired for public purposes by any public agency having the power of eminent domain.
A.
Any license issued under this chapter may be suspended or revoked
for violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of any of
the provisions of N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq. or of any of the rules and
regulations prescribed by said State Director of the Division of Alcoholic
Beverage Control.
B.
Proceedings for suspension or revocation shall be in accordance with
the provisions of N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq., by service of a five days'
notice of charges preferred against the licensee, as provided in N.J.S.A.
33:1-1 et seq., and affording of a reasonable opportunity for a hearing.
Such suspension or revocation shall carry the penalties and prohibitions
provided for in N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq.
