[Adopted 3-24-2022 by Ord. No. O02-2022]
No person or business entity shall engage in or carry on any
business, trade or calling in the City of Gloucester City or aid or
assist an employee, clerk or otherwise in carrying on such business
or in using any stand, store or other place or thing or sell or offer
for sale any goods or things for which a license is required by the
terms of this article, unless a license as herein provided for shall
have been first obtained therefor by said person or business entity
engaging in said business, trade or calling.
An application for a license shall be obtained from the Municipal
Licensing Officer of the City of Gloucester City, Gloucester, New
Jersey, and the application for a license, when completed, shall specifically
name the person, firm or entity to which the license is to be granted
and the location at which such business or occupation is to be carried
on. The application, when completed, shall further provide detailed
information respecting such person, firm or entity and said business
or occupation.
A.
All new businesses shall submit the completed application to the
Municipal Licensing Officer of the City of Gloucester City, who shall,
where appropriate, forward this application to the Planning Board
of the City of Gloucester City, at which time investigation shall
be made, as deemed necessary by the Planning Board of the City of
Gloucester City. The Planning Board of the City of Gloucester City
may conduct a hearing respecting said application and shall forward
any recommendations respecting said application to the Common Council
of the City of Gloucester City. No mercantile license shall be issued
except pursuant to the authorization of the Common Council of the
City of Gloucester City.
B.
All persons, firms or entities presently in existence and required
to be licensed in the City of Gloucester City shall apply for such
license prior to July 1, 2022.
All renewal license fees shall be due and payable to the Municipal
Licensing Officer of the City of Gloucester City at his office in
the City of Gloucester City, New Jersey, on the first day of July
of each year, and all such licenses shall expire on the last day of
June following such payment.
The license fees of $50 shall be paid biennially (once every
two years), as above provided, to the City of Gloucester City for
conducting any businesses, trades, professions or occupations at the
places designated in the license certificate issued therefor.
No person or persons shall be allowed to transact any business
under any license granted under this article except the business for
which said license was specifically granted.
A.
No license shall be issued to any person or entity which has not
complied with the laws of the State of New Jersey or the ordinances
of the City of Gloucester City providing regulations respecting the
safety of the persons who may have occasion to use the premises, place
or thing licensed, and, in case any person licensed fails to comply
with such laws and ordinances after due notice and opportunity to
be heard, the City Common Council may revoke such license.
B.
No license provided for by this article shall be transferred from
one person to another person, and no license shall cover any other
place of business than that for which it was issued.
A.
This article shall not apply to orders taken out of this City or
to soliciting of orders by wholesale dealers from retail dealers or
to deliveries by wholesale dealers to retail dealers or to the sale
or delivery of newspapers, magazines or periodicals.
B.
This article shall not apply to any corporation authorized to transact
business by the Department of Banking and Insurance of the State of
New Jersey or to any corporation authorized to transact business by
any department of the government of the United States or to any person
licensed to transact business by the State of New Jersey or any department,
board or commission thereof or to public utilities.
The Clerk of the City of Gloucester City shall turn over all
said license fees collected by him/her to the City's Chief Financial
Officer.
Any person, firm, association or corporation violating any section
of this article shall, upon conviction before the judge or other officer
having jurisdiction, be subject to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or
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 the judge of the court where the violation
has been heard. Any repetition of any violation of this article shall
be deemed a new offense.
