[Adopted 10-30-1973]
All applications for licenses shall be in writing and conform to the official form promulgated by the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, and filed with the Township Clerk with evidence of payment of the Federal Tax Stamp and the annual license fee as hereinafter provided. The application shall be addressed to the Township Committee and filed with the Township Clerk. All questions shall be fully answered, and the application shall be made under oath and shall designate the place and type of license applied for.
All applications for licenses shall be referred by the Township Clerk to the Police Committee, which shall investigate the character and fitness of the applicant and the premises proposed for license, and shall report its recommendations to the Township Committee.
All licenses, except those issued by the State Director under N.J.S.A. 33:1-20, shall be granted by the Township Committee, shall be signed by the Mayor, attested to by the Township Clerk, issued under the Seal of the Township of Hampton and shall remain force for the term set forth therein unless sooner revoked by the issuing authority or the Director for violation of regulations concerning the sale of alcoholic beverages. Upon granting the license, the Township Clerk shall forthwith report the issuance of same to the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
All licenses shall be for a term of one year from the first day of July in each year, and all fees shall be paid in advance upon presentation of the application; provided, however, that any licensee who shall voluntarily surrender his license, who shall not have committed any violation of this article or of any rule or regulation and who shall have paid all taxes, setoffs or counterclaims that may have become due to the State of New Jersey or to the Township of Hampton shall be entitled, after deduction of 50% of said fee as a surrender fee, to the prorated fee for the unexpired term.
It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation to offer for sale or sell, distribute or transport for sale any alcoholic beverages in the township except pursuant to and within the terms of a license issued as expressly allowed and provided by laws and regulations governing alcoholic beverages.
[Amended 3-28-1989]
The fee for a plenary retail consumption license shall be the sum of $480 per annum until July 1, 1990, when said fee shall be $576 per annum; and the holder of such license shall be entitled, subject to rules and regulations, to sell for consumption on the licensed premises any alcoholic beverages in original containers for consumption off the licensed premises.
[Amended 3-28-1989]
The fee for a retail distribution license shall be the sum of $480 per annum until July 1, 1990, when said fee shall be $576 per annum; a and the holder of such license shall be entitled, subject to rules and regulations, to sell any alcoholic beverages.
A. 
No licensee shall sell, serve, deliver or allow, permit or suffer the sale, service or delivery of any alcoholic beverage or allow the consumption of any alcoholic beverage on the licensed premises except during the hours and on the days hereinafter set forth in this section:
(1) 
On weekdays, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. of the succeeding day.
(2) 
On Sunday, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. of the succeeding day.
(3) 
On December 31, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. New Year's Day.
B. 
The hours referred to herein shall be the prevailing time in the State of New Jersey.
A. 
All licensees shall expose conspicuously in the place of business the license issued by the Township of Hampton as well as the Federal Stamp; no licensee or any of his agents, servants or employees shall sell, serve or deliver to any minor, mental defective or habitual drunkard any alcoholic beverage, nor make sales on credit, nor keep a disorderly house, nor suffer any persons to game in said place for money or the value of money, nor serve, sell or give intoxicating liquor to any policeman or fireman while in uniform, and shall maintain good order and rule in the place of business and abide by and observe all the provisions of this article and the rules and regulations now or that may hereafter be enacted; provided, however, that holders of plenary retail distribution licenses may sell on credit, anything in this subsection notwithstanding.
B. 
No person shall be served in any back room or side room which is not open to the use of the public generally, provided that this prohibition shall not apply to club licenses.
C. 
Sexually oriented activities. No sexually oriented activities shall take place within any portion of any licensed premises within the Township of Hampton. "Sexually oriented activity" shall mean the fondling or other erotic touching of covered or uncovered human genitalia, pubic region, buttock or female breast or any actual or simulated act of human masturbation, sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse; the appearance of waiters or waitresses or other employees either topless or bottomless and with less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola is prohibited.
[Added 7-26-1994]
Any person violating any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 90 days, or to both such fine and imprisonment. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such.