A. 
All license fees shall be due and payable on the first day of January in each year. However, in the event that any new or reopened business begins operation and makes application for a merchant's license after July 1 of any given year, said business shall only be required to pay 50% of the fee for such license.
B. 
If any fee is not paid within 30 days of its due date, a late fee surcharge of $25 will be assessed.
[Added 7-12-2005 by Ord. No. 13-05]
All licenses shall commence as of the first day of January in each year and shall expire on the 31st day of December next. Upon the transfer of location of a licensed business to a new location within the Borough of Brooklawn or upon the sale of a going business remaining in the borough, the license may be transferred, provided that the annual license fee for the year has been paid and a transfer fee of $5 is paid to the Borough Clerk.
A duplicate license may be issued by the Borough Clerk to replace any license previously issued, which license has been lost, stolen, defaced or destroyed without any willful conduct on the part of the licensee, upon the filing by the licensee of an affidavit sworn to before a notary public of the State of New Jersey attesting to such fact and payment to the Borough Clerk of a fee of $5.
No rebate or refund of any license fee or any part thereof shall be made by reason of retirement of licensee from business or by reason of nonuse of such license for all or any portion of the license year or by reason of fire or other accident or other casualty rendering the use of such license ineffective.
A. 
Each license issued hereunder shall state upon its face the following:
B. 
The name of the licensee and any other name under which such business is to be conducted.
C. 
The address of each business to be licensed.
D. 
The amount of license fee therefor .
E. 
The dates of issuance and expiration thereof.
F. 
Such other information as the License Clerk shall determine.
Every license under this chapter shall:
A. 
Permit all reasonable inspections of his business.
B. 
Permit access to the licensed premises at all reasonable times by the License Clerk.
C. 
Ascertain and at all times comply with all laws and regulations applicable to such licensed business.
D. 
Avoid all forbidden, improper, unlawful or unnecessary practices, businesses or conditions which do or may affect the public health, morals or welfare.
E. 
Refrain from operating the licensed business on premises after expiration of his license and during the period when his license is revoked or suspended.
F. 
Not loan, sell, give or assign to any other person or allow any other person to use and display or to destroy, damage or remove or to have in his possession, except as authorized by the License Clerk or by law, any license or insignia which has been issued to said licensee.
[Amended 4-99]
A. 
The license fees to paid annually, unless otherwise specified, for conducting the business or businesses herein named at the premises or premises to be designated in the license or licenses issued hereunder, shall be as follows:[1]
Business License
Fee
Automobile accessories and parts
$50
Automobile agency or showroom for sale of used cars
$50
Automobile agency or showroom for sale of new cars
$50
Automobile garage with accessories
$50
Automobile paint and/or body shop
$50
Automobile service stations with accessories
$50
Bakery or pastry shop, retail or wholesale (each)
$50 each
Barbershop
$50
Beauty parlor
$50
Boardinghouse, hotel, motel, inn, lodging or rooming house
$50
Boat agency or salesroom and accessories
$50
Bookstore, lending library and card store
$50
Bowling alley
$50
Canvassers (per day)
$10/day
Carpets, furniture, furnishings
$50
Cleaning, pressing or dyeing, retail or wholesale
$50
Clothing, haberdashery
$50
Commercial sign makers
$50
Confectioner, retail
$50
Contractors, all kinds
$50
Dairy products store
$50
Dancing academy and/or studio
$50
Delicatessen without luncheonette or restaurant
$50
Drugstores either with or without candy, ice cream, cigars, notions, soda fountain, books and magazines, but without luncheonette or lunch counter
$50
Drugstores with luncheonette or lunch counter
$50
Dry goods store
$50
Electrical appliances and supplies, retail
$50
Electrical appliances and supplies, wholesale
$50
Financial institutions, banks, building and loan companies, building and loan associations, mortgage companies, title companies, etc.
$50
Fire and other altered goods sales (each sale)
$10/day
Five-and-ten-cent stores and similar establishments
$50
Flower and plant stores
$50
Food stores and markets
$50
Furniture stores
$50
Going-out-of-business sale (each sale)
$10/day
Golf course, miniature
$50
Hardware, china, glassware, electrical goods or television stores
$50
Health clubs
$50
Hothouse, greenhouse, flowers or plants
$50
Ice cream manufacturers and distributors, retail
$50
Ice cream manufacturers and distributors, wholesale
$50
Ice cream parlor
$50
Ice machines
$50
Jewelry and jewelry novelties
$50
Laundry, self-service type
$50
   plus $20 for each washing or drying machine
$20
Manufacturing place or device
$50
Meats and poultry, wholesale
$50
Millinery
$50
Motorcycle agency, sale or rental
$50
Musical instruments, music or records
$50
Newspaper publishers
$50
Newsstands not connected with other business hereunder licensed
$50
Optical goods
$50
Paints and painting supplies not connected with hardware stores
$50
Photograph galleries and photograph accessories
$50
Plumbing, steam fitting or gas fitting supplies, wholesale
$50
Print shops
$50
Radio, television and supplies
$50
Real estate and insurance companies
$50
Restaurants, luncheonettes and diners
$50
Seafood stores
$50
Sewing machine stores
$50
Shoes and shoe repairing
$50
Store order or catalog store
$50
Stores and businesses not classified
$50
Tailoring merchants
$50
Variety stores
$50
Selling, soliciting, delivering merchandise or performing services not otherwise classified 10 per day
$10/day
All business not classified or enumerated
$50
[1]
Editor’s Note: Amended 5-10-1999 by Ord. No. 4-99.
B. 
In any instance where a business which would otherwise be licensed separately hereunder is conducted in conjunction with and as accessory to a principal business, a license fee shall be charged only for the principal business, except for coin-operated vending machines or slot machines. The following businesses are examples of a business coming within the definition of "principal business": coliseum club, tennis courts, swimming pool, ice-skating rink, restaurant.
C. 
Cannabis facility license fee.
[Added 4-18-2022 by Ord. No. 6-2022]
(1) 
In order to be granted a business license for the operation of any state-licensed medical cannabis facility or recreational marijuana facility within the Borough of Brooklawn, the following conditions, along with all other requirements of the Borough Code, must be satisfied:
(a) 
Completion of all forms, checklists, and other submissions as may be required by the Borough Clerk's Office;
(b) 
Payment of all applicable local fees, including inspection and licensing fees, including a nonrefundable application fee of $5,000;
(c) 
Demonstration that all applicable state licenses have been obtained;
(d) 
Passage of all applicable state and local inspections required to be completed prior to the beginning of operations and/or renewal of any state and/or local license;
(e) 
Emergency contact information to be utilized by police, fire, and EMT personnel in the event of an on-site emergency; and
(f) 
Submission of a full copy of the application for state licensure, via hard copy or digitally, with pages prominently marked "confidential" as appropriate for purposes of compliance with New Jersey's Open Public Records Act.[2] (Note: Pages not marked as confidential will be disclosed in response to an applicable OPRA request.)
[2]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq.
(2) 
In order to be issued a business license for the operation of any state-licensed medical cannabis facility or recreational marijuana facility within the Borough of Brooklawn, the following fee schedule must be agreed to and that license must be renewed every year:
(a) 
Alternative treatment centers, per location and use, due on February 1 of each calendar year: $5,000.
(b) 
Authorized recreational marijuana retail facility, per location and use, due on February 1 of each calendar year: $5,000.