[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the City of Margate City 7-22-1976 as Ch. 112 of the 1976 Code.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 67.
Amusement devices — See Ch. 71.
Licensing of contractors — See Ch. 114.
Garage sales — See Ch. 152.
Commercial landscapers — See Ch. 169.
Laundries and dry cleaners — See Ch. 171.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 212.
Secondhand dealers — See Ch. 225.
[1]
Editor's Note: Chapter 112 of the 1976 Code
was originally derived from Ord. No. 664, adopted 4-8-1965, as amended.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes persons, firms, copartnerships and corporations.
[Amended 1-5-2023 by Ord. No. 26-2022]
A.
No person
shall engage in or carry on any business in Margate City, or aid or
assist as employee, clerk or otherwise in carrying on 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 chapter, unless a license as herein
provided for shall have been first obtained therefor.
B.
Applicants
for a mercantile license shall provide proof of compliance with N.J.S.A.
40A:10A-1 et seq. which requires business owners and owners of a rental
unit or units to maintain liability insurance for negligent acts and
omissions as hereinafter provided.
(1)
No
person shall engage in or carry on any business in Margate City, or
aid or assist an employee, clerk or otherwise in carrying on 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 chapter, unless a license
as herein provided for shall have been first obtained therefor.
(2)
The
owner of a business shall maintain liability insurance for negligent
acts and omissions in an amount of no less than $500,000 for combined
property damage and bodily injury to or death of one or more persons
in any one accident or occurrence.
(3)
Applicant
shall provide proof that the certificate of liability insurance has
been registered on an internet website maintained by the New Jersey
Division of Local Government Services.
(4)
No
mercantile license shall be issued without applicant furnishing proof
that applicant is in compliance with these ordinance provisions concerning
liability insurance.
C.
Enforcement.
The City of Margate may enforce the registration provisions provided
in N.J.S.A. 40A:10A-1 et seq and this section through a summary proceeding
pursuant to the Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999, P.L. 1999, c. 274
(N.J.S.A. 2A:58-10 et seq.) a fine of not less than $500 but no more
than $5,000 against an owner who failed to comply with the provisions
of this Act.
[Amended 5-13-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-8]
Application for a license shall be made to the
City Clerk of the City of Margate City, New Jersey, and no license
shall be granted until the payment for the same shall have been made.
Every license shall specify by name the person to whom it shall be
issued, the business for which it is granted and the location at which
such business is to be carried on and any conditions of operation
as shall have been imposed by Planning Board site plan approval. The
license shall be prominently displayed at the place of business.
[Amended 5-13-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-8]
All license fees shall be due and payable to
the City Clerk of the City of Margate City at his office in the City
Hall, Margate City, New Jersey. License fees for the remainder of
1993, July 1 to December 31, shall be 1/2 the fees as set forth in
this chapter. Commencing January 1, 1994, the full annual fee for
the period of January 1 to December 31 will be due and payable in
accordance with this chapter.
[Amended 5-13-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-8]
Any person dealing or intending to deal at any
one location in more than one class of goods, wares or merchandise
shall pay a license fee which shall combine the fees for each such
use.
[Amended 5-6-1965 by Ord. No. 669; 7-22-1976 by Ord. No. 942; 2-24-1983 by Ord. No. 1983-2; 8-9-1984 by Ord. No. 1984-10; 5-13-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-8]
The license fees to be paid annually, as above
provided, to the City of Margate City for conducting the businesses
herein named at the places to be designated on the license certificate
issued therefor, or for the use of any wagon, vehicle, stand, store
or place or thing for the sale of any goods or thing or for the type
of service hereinafter designated, shall be as follows:
|
Business
|
Fee
|
|---|---|
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Advertising agency
|
$60.00
|
|
Advertising or demonstration store
|
$60.00
|
|
Antique store
|
$30.00
|
|
Art, needlework and yarn shop
|
$20.00
|
|
Auctioneer
|
$35.00
|
|
Auction store
|
$115.00
|
|
Automatic vending or dispensing machine (except
cigarettes and postage stamps), including pool tables and jukeboxes)
|
$5.00
|
|
Automobile accessories
|
$30.00
|
|
Automobile agency or salesroom (new or used
cars)
|
$60.00
|
|
Automobile service station (with or without
accessories)
|
$40.00
|
|
Awning, blind or shade store
|
$30.00
|
|
Bakery or pastry shop (take-out only)
|
$30.00
|
|
Bakery or pastry shop (with seating)
|
$60.00
|
|
Beach chair or umbrella rental shop
|
$30.00
|
|
Beauty and/or barber shop (with or without sale
of hair and cosmetic products)
|
$20.00
|
|
Bicycle store for sale, hire or repair
|
$20.00
|
|
Boardinghouse, hotel, motel, inn, lodging or
rooming house, each sleeping unit
|
$5.00
|
|
Boat, bait or boat accessories store
|
$30.00
|
|
Boat, sightseeing or charter
|
$50.00
|
|
Bookstore or lending library
|
$30.00
|
|
Bowling alleys, each alley
|
$50.00
|
|
Carpets, furniture or furnishings (without radio
or television)
|
$100.00
|
|
Catering service
|
$25.00
|
|
Cigars and tobacco, retail
|
$30.00
|
|
Circus
|
$500.00
|
|
Cleaning, dyeing, pressing and tailoring
|
$30.00
|
|
Clothing or haberdashery
|
$30.00
|
|
Commercial amusement games, pinball machines,
video games, mechanical or electronic games, each
|
$50.00
|
|
Commercial sign maker
|
$30.00
|
|
Confectioner, retail
|
$30.00
|
|
Dairy products store
|
$30.00
|
|
Dancing academy
|
$30.00
|
|
Delicatessen, without luncheonette or restaurant
|
$100.00
|
|
Delicatessen, with restaurant or luncheonette
|
$200.00
|
|
Delivery or collecting vehicle, either connected
or unconnected with licensed business
|
$10.00
|
|
Department store, including multidepartmental
retail and/or discount drug and accessory store with floor area in
excess of 4,000 square feet
|
$300.00
|
|
Electrical supplies
|
$30.00
|
|
Fat, tallow or bone vehicle
|
$20.00
|
|
Flower and plant store
|
$20.00
|
|
Frankfurter and hamburger stand
|
$30.00
|
|
Fruit store
|
$30.00
|
|
Furs and/or fur storage
|
$100.00
|
|
Gardener, landscaper
|
$50.00
|
|
Gas pumps not connected with garages or service
stations, each pump
|
$7.50
|
|
Groceries, meats and/or poultry, retail
|
$30.00
|
|
Hand laundry
|
$30.00
|
|
Hardware store
|
$60.00
|
|
Hat-cleaning establishment
|
$30.00
|
|
Hothouse or greenhouse, retail only
|
$60.00
|
|
Ice business
|
$30.00
|
|
Ice cream distributor
|
$85.00
|
|
Ice cream/frozen yogurt store, retail only
|
$25.00
|
|
Jewelry or jewelry novelty store
|
$30.00
|
|
Laundry, self-service-type, per washing or drying
machine
|
$6.00
|
|
Lunch counter in store which is not a luncheonette
or restaurant
|
$30.00
|
|
Luncheonette
|
$30.00
|
|
Millinery
|
$30.00
|
|
Motorcycle or motorbike agency
|
$60.00
|
|
Musical instrument or music store
|
$30.00
|
|
Optical store
|
$30.00
|
|
Paints and painters' supplies
|
$30.00
|
|
Paper bags and novelties
|
$30.00
|
|
Parking lots, commercial, per parking space
|
$3.00
|
|
Peddlers, hucksters, hawkers, door-to-door sales,
home party sales and demonstrations
|
$20.00
|
|
Photo shop, gallery and supplies
|
$30.00
|
|
Plumbing, steam-fitting or gas-fitting supplies
(retail only)
|
$60.00
|
|
Pool or billiard establishment, each table
|
$250.00
|
|
Print shop
|
$100.00
|
|
Radio and television sales and supplies
|
$30.00
|
|
Restaurant
|
$60.00
|
|
Seafood/fish store (with or without produce)
|
$30.00
|
|
Sewing machine store
|
$30.00
|
|
Ship/boatyard, slip and dock rental business
|
$30.00
|
|
Shoe repairs
|
$30.00
|
|
Shoe store
|
$30.00
|
|
Skating rink
|
$250.00
|
|
Stationer, greeting cards, books, magazines
and novelties
|
$30.00
|
|
Supermarket-type store
|
$300.00
|
|
Surfboards, diving, underwater and swimming
equipment, any and all
|
$30.00
|
|
Theater or moving-picture house
|
$500.00
|
|
Upholsterer, furniture and accessories
|
$60.00
|
|
Window cleaning business
|
$30.00
|
|
Any store or business not classified or designated
in this chapter and not covered by special ordinance or license
|
$30.00
|
[Amended 5-13-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-8]
All licenses issued between the first day of
January and the first day of July, following, in any year shall be
issued for 1/2 of the fees mentioned hereinabove. Said license shall
expire on the 30th day of June, following. Interpretations of category
or combined categories of store/business shall be the sole responsibility
of the Margate City Clerk.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 112-7, which
immediately followed this section and dealt with the purpose of the
fees, was deleted 1-25-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-1.
[Amended 1-25-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-1]
Any person violating any provision of this chapter
shall, upon conviction in the Municipal Court of the City of Margate
City, be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment in
the county jail for any term not to exceed 90 days, or both, in the
discretion of the Judge hearing the same.
