[Amended 6-30-1971 by Ord. No. 1053; 6-15-1994 by Ord. No.
43/94; 4-17-1996 by Ord. No. 17/96; 2-19-1997 by Ord. No.
4/97; 2-18-1998 by Ord. No. 3/98; 3-31-1999 by Ord. No. 4/99; 6-16-1999 by Ord. No. 8/99; 3-15-2000 by Ord. No. 6/00; 3-21-2001 by Ord. No. 3/01; 2-20-2002 by Ord. No. 2/02; 2-19-2003 by Ord. No.
1/03; 2-16-2005 by Ord. No. 1/05; 8-17-2011 by Ord.
No. 14/11]
The license fees for alcoholic beverage licenses
in the Town of West New York, New Jersey, shall be as follows:
A. Plenary retail consumption license: $2,500 per annum.
B. Plenary retail distribution license: $2,500 per annum.
C. Limited retail distribution license: $63 per annum.
D. Club license: $188 per annum.
[Amended 6-15-1994 by Ord. No. 43/94; 4-17-1996 by Ord. No. 17/96; 2-19-1997 by Ord. No. 4/97; 2-18-1998 by Ord. No. 3/98; 3-31-1999 by Ord. No. 4/99; 6-16-1999 by Ord. No. 8/99; 3-15-2000 by Ord. No. 6/00; 3-21-2001 by Ord. No. 3/01; 2-20-2002 by Ord. No.
2/02; 2-19-2003 by Ord. No. 1/03; 2-16-2005 by Ord. No. 1/05; 8-17-2011 by Ord. No. 14/11]
The above license fees shall take effect as
permitted by P.L. 2003, c. 117, which amended N.J.S.A. 33:1-12, increasing
present fees for the above referred to licenses until the maximum
amounts for those levels are reached. Said increases do not exceed
20% per annum.
A license shall be for the term of one year,
from the first day of July in each year.
Every application for a license shall be accompanied
by a deposit of the full amount of the properly prorated annual fee
for such license.
[Amended 7-15-1998 by Ord. No. 15/98]
No licensee shall have in his employ anyone
under the age of 18 years.
No licensee shall have, keep or possess at any
time on the licensed premises, any distilled or fortified or rectified
or blended alcoholic beverages whatsoever, in bulk. No alcoholic beverage
shall be sold to be consumed on the licensed premises unless the same
shall be taken out of original containers properly sealed with all
necessary government and state stamps affixed thereto. All alcoholic
beverages sold to be consumed off the premises shall be sold in original
containers properly sealed with all necessary government and state
stamps affixed thereto.
No such half-pint, pint or quart of distilled
alcoholic beverages shall be sold on the licensed premises for consumption
thereon, but may be sold for consumption off the licensed premises.
Following every sale of distilled or fortified
or rectified or blended alcoholic beverages, for consumption on the
licensed premises, each licensee shall retain upon the licensed premises
all containers so sold with the broken seal and stamps thereon until
written permission of the Department of Public Safety is given for
the removal thereof, whereon said last-mentioned containers shall
forthwith be removed.
If any containers, filled, partly filled or
empty, shall be found upon the licensed premises of any licensee without
all lawful and proper stamps attached thereto or with forged, counterfeit
or in any otherwise unlawful stamps or if such stamps, whether attached
to any container or not, shall be found upon such licensed premises,
then and in either of such events this license may be immediately
revoked.
All licenses issued under these rules and regulations
shall be subject to the right hereby reserved by the Board of Commissioners
of the Town of West New York to change, alter, amend or repeal the
same at any time.
All applications for licenses as hereinbefore
set forth shall be filed with the Town Clerk of the Town of West New
York.
[Added 6-16-1982 by Ord. No. 1546]
The Town Clerk be and he hereby is authorized
to charge an application fee of $5 to each applicant for a liquor
license application, and said fee shall be payable upon issuance to
the applicant of the appropriate forms to be completed by the applicant.