[Adopted 5-11-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-14]
There are hereby established and authorized three retail plenary consumption licenses in the City of Ventnor. The sale, use and renewal of said licenses shall be governed by Chapter 61 of the Code of the City of Ventnor as well as all laws and regulations adopted by the State of New Jersey, including but not limited to those governing intoxicating liquors as set forth in N.J.S.A. 33:1-1.
The issuing authority is hereby established in the City of Ventnor.
The issuing authority shall be the Mayor and Commissioners acting
together in their official capacity, who are sworn into office, respectively,
at the time that any question or issue is brought before the issuing
authority.
The definition of any word or phrase used in this chapter shall
be the definition as set forth in N.J.S.A. 33:1-1.
No plenary retail consumption license shall be issued for the
sale of alcoholic beverages within 200 feet of any church, public
school ho use or private school house not conducted for pecuniary
profit. The protection set forth in this section of the Code may be
waived by the duly authorized governing body of any such church or
school; however, such waiver shall only be effective until the date
of the next renewal of the license in question. Said 200 feet shall
be measured in the normal way that a pedestrian would properly walk
from the nearest entrance of said church or school to the nearest
entrance of the premises sought to be licensed. This prohibition shall
not apply to any licensed premises which existed prior to the construction
of any said church or school house if such church or school house
were constructed during a time that the licensed premises was already
operating. The purpose of this prohibition is to benefit not the property
of the church or school house but the persons attending the same.
Each plenary retail consumption license must be renewed to become
effective as of July 1 of any given year. Such renewals must be filed
pursuant to the laws and regulations as established by the State of
New Jersey, Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control and the City of
Ventnor. Said renewals must be filed electronically using the POSSE
system. Responsibility to timely file any application or renewal shall
be on the applicant.
The number to be assigned each license shall be a twelve-digit
number as determined by the State of New Jersey, Division of Alcoholic
Beverage Control.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The annual fee for the issuance and/or renewal of any plenary retail consumption license shall be in the amount set forth in Chapter 114, Fee Schedule.
The plenary retail consumption licenses to be issued by the
City of Ventnor shall only be used in conjunction with an open and
operating restaurant located within the City and any applicant with
a realistic plan to open and operate a restaurant within the City
of Ventnor within 24 months of the acquiring of a plenary retail consumption
liquor license, and only in permitted zones as defined in the Municipal
Land Use Ordinance of the City of Ventnor. The holder of a retail
plenary consumption license within the City of Ventnor shall be entitled
to sell any alcoholic beverages for consumption on the licensed premises
by the glass or other open receptacle.
No person shall have an interest in more than one plenary retail
consumption license within the City of Ventnor. However, nothing herein
shall operate to disqualify a guardian, executor, administrator, trustee,
receiver or any other fiduciary or Court officer from obtaining or
holding more than one license in different official capacities.
No plenary retail consumption licensed establishment may sell
alcoholic beverages on any day between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and
11:00 a.m.
