[HISTORY: Adopted by the North Wildwood City Council 12-21-1982 by Ord. No. 827. Amendments noted where applicable.]
There is hereby created the North Wildwood Tourists' Development Commission.
The purpose of this Commission is to promote tourism on behalf of the City of North Wildwood, through assisting the City with appropriate advertising and promotional literature.
[Amended 4-10-2018 by Ord. No. 1744]
In order to promote tourism to the City of North Wildwood, an additional mercantile assessment shall be imposed upon all those individuals, corporations, partnerships or associations possessing one of the following licenses issued by the City of North Wildwood: alcoholic beverage licenses, room license permits, legalized games of chance licenses and mercantile licenses. The additional assessment imposed upon any one licensee shall be 50% of the license fee or $100, whichever is less.
All revenues received through the additional mercantile assessment shall be deposited with a fund created by this chapter and held by the Commission created by § 95-1 of this chapter. The fund shall be the exclusive repository of all revenues collected by the City of North Wildwood Tourists' Development Commission. In no event shall moneys from any other source be allocated to this fund. Revenues from the fund are dedicated exclusively to the purposes of publicizing and otherwise promoting the City of North Wildwood in order to attract tourism. The Commission shall have exclusive authority to disburse all revenues allocated to the fund, which disbursements shall be made to fulfill the purposes above described.
[Amended 4-5-2016 by Ord. No. 1696; 12-21-2021 by Ord. No. 1859]
The North Wildwood Tourists’ Development Commission shall constitute an agency and instrumentality of the City of North Wildwood and shall consist of seven members who shall be appointed by resolution of the governing body. One of the Commissioners shall be a representative of the municipality and shall advise the governing body of the work of the Commission. The remaining six members of the Commission shall be municipal licensees upon whom an additional assessment has been imposed or, if a license is issued in the name of a corporation or partnership, its representative.
[Amended 4-5-2016 by Ord. No. 1696]
The Commissioner representing the municipality shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body. The remaining Commissioners shall serve for periods of two years. A vacancy on the Commission occurring other than by expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment. The Commissioners shall serve without compensation in performance of their duty.
As soon as possible, and in any event not later than 15 days after its appointment, the Commission shall organize and hold its first meeting, fix its hour and place of meeting and adopt rules for the conduct of its business as it may deem necessary and advisable. The majority of the members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
The Commission shall keep records of its meetings, activities and expenditures. At any time upon the request of the governing body and in no event less than once annually, the Commission shall make a report based on its records. The governing body shall examine the report to determine whether all disbursements from the fund have been made for the purposes described in this chapter. If the governing body determines that disbursements were not made pursuant to the stated purposes of this chapter, it may, by resolution stating the reasons therefor, remove any or all members of the Commission.
The North Wildwood Tourists' Development Commission is authorized to act jointly with any other commission so created in any other municipality in Cape May County, in furtherance of the purposes stated in this chapter.
This chapter shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all license fees aforesaid issued in 1983 and hereafter.