[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Egg Harbor
City as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fees and deposits — See Ch.
139.
[Adopted 11-14-1974 as Ch. 48 of the 1974 Code;
amended in its entirety 6-28-1979 by Ord. No. 13-1979]
No person shall engage in or carry on any business in the City of Egg
Harbor City or aid or assist, as employee, clerk or otherwise, in carrying
on any such business or in using any wagon, vehicle, stand, store or other
place or thing or sell or offer for sale any goods or thing 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.
[Amended 4-6-1989 by Ord. No. 6-1989]
A. Application for a license shall be made to the City Clerk
of the City of Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, and no license shall be granted
until payment for the same shall have been made in full. Every license shall
specify, by name, the person, firm or corporation to whom or to which it shall
be issued, the business for which granted and the location at which such business
is to be carried on.
B. No license shall be granted under this article for any
theater, scenic theater, moving-picture show, electric illusion or other exhibition
or amusement until the Construction Code Official and Chief of the Fire Department
certify, in writing, to the City Clerk that the applicant has complied with
all the ordinances and regulations respecting protection of life and property
relating to such places.
[Amended 8-26-1999 by Ord. No. 16-1999]
C. No license shall be granted under this article for new
or change of ownership for any type of food establishment (restaurant, luncheonette,
ice cream parlor, fish market, etc.) until the Plumbing Inspector and Health
Department certify, in writing, that the applicant has complied with all the
ordinances and regulations pertaining to the health, welfare and safety of
such places.
D. The certificate of license shall be conspicuously displayed
on the premises where the business is conducted. Licensees having no local
place of business shall exhibit their license when requested to do so by officers
of the Police Department.
All license fees shall be due and payable to the City Clerk at his/her
office in the City of Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, on the first day of June
in each year, and all such licenses shall expire on the first day of June
following such payment, except that businesses commencing original operation
in the City of Egg Harbor City after January 1 of any year shall be permitted
to pay 1/2 of the normal license fee, and licenses issued under this subsection
shall expire on the first day of June following.
[Amended 6-11-1992 by Ord. No. 6-1992; 8-26-1999
by Ord. No. 16-1999; 3-10-2005 by Ord.
No. 7-2005]
The license fee to be paid annually to the City of Egg Harbor City for
conducting businesses at the place designated in the license certificate issued
therefor shall be as follows:
Type of Business
|
Fee
|
---|
Appliance store, sales or service
|
$50
|
Antique store
|
$50
|
Auction store, each
|
$250
|
Auctioneers, real estate, each
|
$250
|
Automobile accessories
|
$50
|
Automobile dealers, agency or salesroom
|
$50
|
Automobile garage, repairs
|
$50
|
Art, glassware and ceramics
|
$50
|
Bakery, retail, wholesale
|
$50
|
Bicycles, mopeds, sales and service
|
$50
|
Bowling alleys
|
$50
|
Body shop and spray liners
|
$50
|
Brick, lime, concrete block or mortar
|
$50
|
Burial vaults, caskets, monuments
|
$50
|
Butter, eggs and poultry
|
$50
|
Car wash
|
$50
|
Caterer, foods
|
$50
|
Cleaning, pressing and dyeing
|
$50
|
Circus (Council reserves the right to waive fee for nonprofit organizations)
|
$50
|
Dancing schools
|
$50
|
Drugs and medical supplies
|
$50
|
Dry cleaning and/or laundry
|
$50
|
Department stores
|
$50
|
Electrical supplies and appliances
|
$50
|
Express and hauling business
|
$50
|
Fencing
|
$50
|
Firewood peddlers
|
$50
|
Five and ten cent stores, each
|
$50
|
Florists
|
$50
|
Fuel oil and distribution
|
$50
|
Furniture sales and manufacturing
|
$50
|
Garage repairs and equipment
|
$50
|
Gasoline filling stations, gas and oil only
|
$50
|
Grocery stores
|
$50
|
Hardware stores
|
$50
|
Ice cream parlors
|
$50
|
Job printing plant
|
$50
|
Jewelry stores
|
$50
|
Junk dealers, storage yard
|
$500
|
Keys, locksmith
|
$50
|
Ladies and mens apparel
|
$50
|
Landscaping and lawn maintenance
|
$50
|
Laundromat, coin-operated
|
$50
|
Lumber and millwork
|
$50
|
Milk, distributing plant or milk vehicles
|
$50
|
Moving-picture or other theater
|
$250
|
Newspaper publishers
|
$50
|
Oils, gasoline, petroleum, etc., storage, supply or service plant
|
$50
|
Paint, oils and paint supplies
|
$50
|
Peddler and solicitors, with or without baskets, packs, cases or samples,
offering for sale any foods, wares, merchandise or service or the soliciting
of the same, each person
|
$250
|
Photographic establishment
|
$50
|
Plumbing supplies and appliances
|
$50
|
Pool and billiard tables, each
|
$50
|
Public storage facilities
|
$50
|
Radio, television and CB stores, including supplies and service
|
$50
|
Restaurant or lunchroom
|
$50
|
Seafood business
|
$50
|
Shoe repair
|
$50
|
Shoe store
|
$50
|
Sporting and recreation facilities and clothing
|
$50
|
Sale of soft drinks, agents, selling or delivering
|
$50
|
Shuffleboard, each
|
$50
|
Stationery and stationery supplies
|
$50
|
Storage house
|
$50
|
Stores, other than those designated or classified above
|
$50
|
Storm doors, windows, mirrors and glass products
|
$50
|
Tailors
|
$50
|
Trash and refuse collectors
|
$50
|
Thrift shops
|
$50
|
Towing
|
$250
|
Used-car lots, each location
|
$50
|
A. No license certificate shall be issued to any person
who has not complied with the laws of the State of New Jersey or the ordinances
of the City of Egg Harbor City providing regulations respecting the safety
of 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 Common Council may revoke
such license.
B. No license provided for by this article shall be transferred
from one person, firm or corporation to another person, firm or corporation,
and no license shall cover any other place of business than that for which
it was issued.
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 corporations authorized to transact business by any department of the
Government of the United States of America or to any person licensed to transact
business by the State of New Jersey, or any department, board or commission
thereof, or to plumbers, builders or electricians now licensed or to persons
hereafter to be licensed under ordinances of this City or to interstate commerce
or to public utilities.
[Amended 8-26-1999 by Ord. No. 16-1999]
Each and every person violating any of the provisions of this article
shall be subject, upon conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding $1,000,
a term of imprisonment not exceeding 90 days or a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof, in the discretion of the
Court. The continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute
a separate offense, and each person continuing or allowing or permitting the
continuation of a violation may be punished as provided above for each separate
offense.
[Adopted 8-26-1999 by Ord. No. 16-1999]
As a condition for issuance or renewal of any license or permit issued
by or requiring the approval of the City, its agents or employees, the applicant
shall certify that, if he is the owner thereof, he has paid any delinquent
property taxes or assessments on the property wherein the business or activity
for which the license or permit is sought or wherein the business or activity
is to be conducted.
When any licensee who is an owner of the licensed property or upon which
the licensed business or activity is conducted has failed to pay the taxes
due on that property for at least three consecutive quarters, the issuing
authority for the license or permit shall give notice of revocation of that
license or permit at least ten days prior to the effective date of said revocation.
Upon payment of the delinquent taxes or assessment prior to the effective
date, the notice to revoke the license or permit shall be dismissed. Subsequent
to revocation, the former licensee must apply for renewal for the license
or permit.
The licensee or holder of a permit in the City, upon receipt of a notice
of revocation of that license or permit, may appeal said proposed revocation
to the City Administrator who shall, within 20 days of said notice, provide
a hearing for said licensee or holder of a permit. No revocation shall occur
during the period prior to the hearing by the City Administrator. Subsequent
to hearing of the appeal, the Administrator shall render a final decision
in regard to revocation of the license or permit.
The provisions of this Article shall not apply to or include any alcoholic
beverage license or permit issued pursuant to the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Act, N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq.