No license shall be issued except after written application presented by the proposed licensee upon forms furnished by the Borough and after compliance with publication of notice and otherwise, as required by law.
All applications for licenses shall set forth, in full, answers to questions prescribed by state law and by rules and regulations of the State Director and the governing body and shall include declarations called for by state law.
No license shall be issued to any person not qualified under the provisions of state law and of said rules and regulations.
The classes of licenses to be issued by the Borough are hereby fixed as follows:
A. 
Plenary retail consumption licenses.
B. 
Seasonal retail consumption licenses.
C. 
Plenary retail distribution licenses.
D. 
Limited retail distribution licenses.
E. 
Club licenses.
[Amended by Ord. No. 365; Ord No. 366; Ord No. 374; Ord No. 387; Ord No. 494]
A. 
The number of licenses issued and outstanding to sell alcoholic beverages in the Borough, to include within their number any licenses issued prior to February 2, 1937, shall be restricted and limited as shown below. Number of licenses subject to change based upon new census.[1]
(1) 
Plenary retail consumption licenses: five.
(2) 
Seasonal retail consumption licenses: no limit.
(3) 
Plenary retail distribution licenses: two.
(4) 
Limited retail distribution licenses: six.
(5) 
Club licenses: six.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
B. 
The restriction in Subsection A(1) of this section to five plenary retail consumption licenses shall not be construed to prevent or restrict those licensees who, on June 27, 1938, held or possessed such plenary retail consumption licenses, or their lawful successors or transferees, from securing the renewal of licenses already issued; provided, however, that any plenary retail consumption license issued or in force on June 27, 1938, or which may be issued thereafter which is not renewed or for which application for renewal is not made as required by law within 30 days after its date of expiration shall automatically be eliminated and excluded from the number of such licenses permitted to be issued under this section and shall be classified as applications for new licenses and not renewals of existing licenses.
[Amended by Ord. No. 365; Ord. No. 540; Ord. No. 770; Ord. No. 770; Ord. No. 1108; Ord. No. 1156; 4-17-2007 by Ord. No. 1329]
A. 
The annual license fees for the sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages in the Borough of Dumont for 2007 and thereafter shall be shall be as follows:
Class of Licenses/Year
Annual License Fee
Plenary retail consumption license fee shall be increased by 20% from that charged in the preceding year, as follows:
2008
$1,041 (20% increase from 2007)
2009
$1,249 (20% increase from 2008)
2010
$1,498 (20% increase from 2009)
2011
$1,797 (20% increase from 2010)
Seasonal retail consumption license shall be 75% of plenary retail consumption license fee for its respective year, as follows:
2008
$780
2009
$936
2010
$1,123
2011
$1,347
Plenary retail distribution license fee shall be increased by 20% from that charged in the preceding year, as follows:
2008
$595 (20% increase from 2007)
2009
$611 (20% increase from 2008)
2010
$733 (20% increase from 2009)
2011
$879 (20% increase from 2010)
B. 
Limited retail distribution license fee shall be $63.
C. 
Club license fee shall be $188.
[Amended by Ord. No. 365]
All license fees shall be paid in advance upon presentation of the application. After issuance of a license, no refund of any portion of the license fee shall be made except as may be authorized by N.J.S.A. 33:1-31.
No more than one plenary retail consumption license shall be issued to one individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership or association.
No plenary retail consumption license, no seasonal retail consumption license and no plenary retail distribution license shall be granted for premises located within 500 feet of any public school or private schoolhouse not conducted for pecuniary profit. Said 500 feet shall be measured in the normal way that a pedestrian would properly walk from the nearest entrance of said school to the nearest entrance of the premises sought to be licensed; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to the renewal of any such license issued as of February 22, 1937, nor shall it apply to the renewal of any such license where no such school was located within said prohibited distance at the time of the issuance of said license so to be renewed, or as otherwise excepted by the provisions of N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq.
[Amended by Ord. No. 365]
A. 
No plenary retail distribution license shall be granted for any premises within 500 feet of any other premises wherein business is carried on under an existing plenary retail distribution license; provided, however, that these restrictions shall not apply to the renewal of any such license issued as of February 22, 1937.
B. 
No plenary retail distribution license shall be issued to permit and no such license shall permit the sale of alcoholic beverages in or upon any premises in which any other mercantile business is carried on, except that such restriction shall not be deemed to prohibit the retail sale of nonalcoholic beverages as accessory beverages to alcoholic beverages.
No plenary retail consumption license, no seasonal retail consumption license, no plenary retail distribution license and no limited retail distribution license shall be issued contrary to any zoning ordinance in the Borough; provided, however, that these restrictions shall not apply to the renewal of any such licenses issued as of February 22, 1937.
Licenses shall be transferable from one location to another or from the holder of a license to a different person only in accordance with N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq., as amended and supplemented, and with the provisions of this chapter.
A. 
Any license issued under this chapter may be suspended or revoked for violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of any of the provisions of N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq. or of any of the rules and regulations prescribed by said State Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
B. 
Proceedings for suspension or revocation shall be in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq., by service of a five-days' notice of charges preferred against the licensee, as provided in N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq., and affording of a reasonable opportunity for a hearing. Such suspension or revocation shall carry the penalties and prohibitions provided for in N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq.