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NJ Rev Stat § 40:49-27a (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:49-27a - Signatures

40:49-27a. Signatures  The signatures to a petition circulated pursuant to R.S. 40:49-27 need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add after his signature his place of residence, giving the street and number. One of the signers of each paper shall make an oath before an officer competent to administer the same that the statement made therein is true as he believes, and that each signature on the paper is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.  L. 1986, c. 69, s. 2, eff. July 30, 1986.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:49-27b (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:49-27b - Certification of petition

40:49-27b. Certification of petition  Within 10 days after the filing of the petition, the municipal clerk shall examine the same and ascertain whether or not it is signed by the requisite number of qualified voters, and shall attach its certificate showing the result of the examination. If the petition is insufficient, the clerk shall return the petition to the person filing it. The petition may be amended and refiled within 10 days after the receipt thereof from the clerk. Within 10 days after receiving an amended petition, the clerk shall examine the petition. If the petition is sufficient, the clerk shall submit it to the governing body of the municipality without delay, and shall take all necessary steps required by R.S. 40:49-10 and this amendatory and supplementary act for the scheduling of an election on the ordinance. If the petition is not sufficient, the clerk shall return it to the person filing it, and the ordinance shall become operative immediately or on the 20th day following publication of the ordinance after final passage, as appropriate.  L. 1986, c. 69, s. 3, eff. July 30, 1986.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:49-27c (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:49-27c - Notice of election.

40:49-27c. Notice of election.  If the ordinance is to be submitted to the voters, notice of the election shall be published at least once in a newspaper published in the municipality or, if there is no such newspaper, in a newspaper published in the county and circulating in the municipality. The notice shall be published at least 10 days before the date of the election.  L. 1986, c. 69, s. 4, eff. July 30, 1986.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:50-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:50-14 - Water supply and sewerage contracts; abrogation by ordinance

40:50-14. Water supply and sewerage contracts; abrogation by ordinance  Whenever any municipality has heretofore or shall have hereafter entered into a contract for a supply of water for the public and private uses of the municipality and its inhabitants and for the purchase of a sewer system, or for either, or both, and such contract or contracts have been or shall be partially performed, the governing body of the municipality, by ordinance, may determine that it is for the best interests of the municipality to abrogate such contract or contracts with the consent of the other contracting party or parties upon such terms and conditions as the contracting parties shall agree upon. Any such ordinance shall set forth the terms and conditions upon and under which the said contract or contracts shall be abrogated and shall authorize the appropriate officers of the municipality to enter into such contract or contracts on behalf of the municipality with the other contracting party or parties. Upon the making of a new such contract or contracts, the governing body of a municipality is authorized to take any and all such action as may be required to carry out the terms and conditions of the contract or contracts and to fully effectuate the purposes of such contract or contracts. Such action, as herein authorized, shall include, but without limitation, the right to make, execute and deliver, on the part of the municipality, a deed or deeds of conveyance of any property theretofore conveyed to the municipality pursuant to the contract or contracts to be abrogated so as to accomplish and effect the reconveyance of the property or properties to the party or parties from whom they were received and also subject to the approval of the Division of Local Government in the Treasury Department to make such changes in the municipal budget for the then current year and for the succeeding years as may be required by reason of the abrogation of any such contract or contracts. A copy of any such ordinance and of any such contract entered into pursuant to any such ordinance, attested by the municipal clerk, shall be filed with the said Division of Local Government in the Department of the Treasury. L.1956, c. 168, p. 661, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:50-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:50-15 - Purchases approved by voters

40:50-15. Purchases approved by voters  If the question of making the purchase provided for by the contract to be abrogated had been submitted to the voters of the municipality for approval or ratification then, and in that event, the ordinance providing for the abrogation of said contract shall not be effective unless and until such abrogation has been authorized by the legal voters of the municipality at a special or general election in said municipality held in accordance with the procedure provided for in sections 40:62-3 to 40:62-5 of the Revised Statutes. L.1956, c. 168, p. 662, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:50-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:50-16 - Host community benefit agreements.

40:50-16 Host community benefit agreements.  75. Host community benefit agreements between a municipality and an electric generating facility within the municipality shall be of full force and effect under law and shall be binding upon the parties to the agreement. L.1997,c.162,s.75.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-1.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-1.1 - Proof of compliance with section 34:15-71 required; revocation of license for failure

40:52-1.1. Proof of compliance with section 34:15-71 required; revocation of license for failure  The governing body shall not issue or authorize the issuance of a license for circuses, carnivals or other traveling shows to be conducted out of doors or under tents and not in a licensed theatre or other building under the authority of subparagraph (f) of section 40:52-1 of the Revised Statutes without the submission of satisfactory proof of the applicant's compliance with the provisions of section 34:15-71 of the Revised Statutes, and any such license heretofore or hereafter issued shall be revoked after hearing by the governing body upon proof of the licensee's failure to comply with the provisions of said section 34:15-71 of the Revised Statutes after notice and failure to comply. L.1947, c. 296, p. 1009, s. 1. Amended by L.1948, c. 234, p. 1074, s. 1, eff. July 16, 1948.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-1.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-1.2 - Delinquent property taxes; revocation, suspension of license

40:52-1.2. Delinquent property taxes; revocation, suspension of license  1. Except as provided herein, the governing body of a municipality may, by ordinance, as a condition for the issuance or renewal of any license or permit issued by, or requiring the approval of, the municipality, require that the applicant, if he is the owner thereof, pay any delinquent property taxes or assessments on the property that is the subject of the license or on which a licensed activity or business is or will be conducted. The ordinance may also provide for the revocation or suspension of a license or permit when any licensee, who is an owner of the property affected by the license or upon which the licensed business or activity is conducted, has failed to pay the taxes due on the property for at least three consecutive quarters. Upon payment of the delinquent taxes or assessments, the license or permit shall be restored. The provisions of this section shall not apply to or include any alcoholic beverage license or permit issued pursuant to the "New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Control Act," R.S.33:1-1 et seq. L.1987,c.174,s.1; amended 1995,c.385,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-1.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-1.3 - Sales tax certificate required for licensing of certain vendors

40:52-1.3. Sales tax certificate required for licensing of certain vendors  2. The governing body of a municipality shall not issue or authorize the issuance of a license to a vendor of tangible personal property, other than property exempted from sales and use taxation pursuant to section 14 of P.L.1980, c.105 (C.54:32B-8.2), having no fixed place of business in the municipality under the authority of subsection c. of R.S.40:52-1 without the submission of a copy of a valid certificate of authority issued to the vendor pursuant to section 15 of P.L.1966, c.30 (C.54:32B-15), empowering the vendor to collect sales tax.  L.1993,c.274,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-2 - License fees fixed; penalties

40:52-2. License fees fixed; penalties  The governing body may fix the fees for all such licenses, which may be imposed for revenue, and may prohibit all unlicensed persons and places and vehicles, businesses and occupations from acting, being used, conducted or carried on; impose penalties for violation of ordinances providing for licenses, and revoke any license for sufficient cause and after notice and hearing.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-4 - Licensing persons selling produce at public markets; fee for producers

40:52-4. Licensing persons selling produce at public markets; fee for producers  A municipality may impose a license fee upon any person selling vegetables, green goods, farm produce, shrubbery, plants, bulbs, or products of the nursery or farm in any common or public market place within the limits of the municipality, the license fee being for the purpose of permitting such person to conduct such business in the market place. When the seller is also the grower, raiser or producer of the product sold the license fee shall not exceed one dollar a year per person.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-7 - Additional assessments

40:52-7. Additional assessments  1. The governing body of any municipality is authorized to enact an ordinance or ordinances imposing an additional assessment to any fee imposed upon a license issued by the municipality pursuant to P.L.1959, c.109 (C.5:8-100 et seq.), R.S.40:52-1 or R.S.33:1-19. The additional assessment shall be imposed at the rate as shall be determined by the governing body and set forth in the ordinance. In no event shall the total amount of the additional assessment imposed on any one license exceed $200.  L.1982,c.68,s.1; amended 1987,c.412; 1994,c.46,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-8 - Creation of fund

40:52-8. Creation of fund  2. Every municipality adopting an ordinance or ordinances authorized by section 1 of P.L.1982, c.68 (C.40:52-7) shall create a fund, which shall be held by the commission created pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1982, c.68 (C.40:54C-1). The fund shall be the exclusive repository of all revenues collected by the municipality pursuant to the additional licensing assessment, and shall be audited by the municipality as part of the annual audit of its books, accounts and financial transactions made in accordance with N.J.S.40A:5-4. Revenues from the fund shall be disbursed to fulfill the purpose expressed in section 5 of P.L.1982, c.68 (C.40:54C-3), and are dedicated to that purpose exclusively. Any revenues received by the municipality on behalf of the commission shall be treated as a dedicated revenue pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.40A:4-39.  L.1982,c.68,s.2; amended 1992,c.166,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-9 - Definitions

40:52-9. Definitions  1. As used in this act: "Licensing authority" means a municipal governing body or, in a municipality which has established a rooming or boarding house site licensing board pursuant to section 10 of this act, the board so established.  "Operator" means any person including for the purposes of this act any corporation or association of persons and any agency or instrumentality of State or local government, which operates or proposes to operate a rooming or boarding house.  "Owner" means the holder of title in fee simple to premises and any lessor or sublessor of whom an operator is or proposes to become a sublessor in coicensed pursuant to P.L.1979, c.496 (C.55:15B-1 et seq.).  "Population" means the most recent population count reported by the Department of Labor.  "Rooming or boarding house" means a rooming or boarding house licensed pursuant to P.L.1979, c.496 (C.55:13B-1 et al.).  L.1993,c.290,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-10 - Licensing of rooming, boarding houses.

40:52-10 Licensing of rooming, boarding houses.  2. The governing body of a municipality may, by ordinance, elect to license rooming and boarding houses located in the municipality in accordance with the provisions of this act. The governing body of a municipality that elects to license rooming and boarding houses may adopt, by ordinance, such regulations as it deems appropriate and necessary to enforce the provisions of P.L.1993, c.290; except those regulations shall not be inconsistent with the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to P.L.1979, c.496 (C.55:13B-1 et seq.) to which rooming and boarding houses shall remain subject. If the governing body elects to license such facilities, the governing body shall so notify the Commissioner of Community Affairs or his designee. An owner or operator of a rooming or boarding house licensed by a municipality pursuant to this act shall not be required to pay an annual licensing fee for that rooming or boarding house to the Department of Community Affairs pursuant to the "Rooming and Boarding House Act of 1979," P.L.1979, c.496 (C.55:13B-1 et seq.).  L.1993,c.290,s.2; amended 1997, c.344, s.1; 1999, c.241, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-11 - Operation of rooming, boarding house, license required

40:52-11. Operation of rooming, boarding house, license required  3. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, no rooming or boarding house shall hereafter be located or operated in any municipality which elects to license such facilities except upon premises licensed for that purpose by the licensing authority of the municipality.  b. Any rooming or boarding house that is in lawful operation on the date of enactment of this act shall be entitled to continue in operation for one year from that date and, if the owner of the premises applies for licensure not later than the 60th day next preceding the expiration of that year, until a final determination is made upon that application.  L.1993,c.290,s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-12 - Application for license; fees

40:52-12. Application for license; fees  4. a. Application for a license under this act shall be made by the owner to the appropriate licensing authority. The application shall be in such form, and shall contain such information and declarations and be accompanied by such application fee, not exceeding $200, as may be prescribed by resolution of the licensing authority, and shall be filed with the municipal clerk or the secretary of the licensing board, if such a board is established in the municipality. The form of application prescribed by the licensing authority shall require the submission of such information and supporting documentation as provide a basis upon which the licensing authority may conduct the investigation and reach the conclusions required under this act for the issuance or denial of a license. To the extent that the form of application requires the furnishing of information by the operator, it shall be the responsibility of the applicant owner to obtain such information and to exercise due care and diligence to assure its completeness and accuracy. The licensing authority may require that information required from the operator be duly sworn to by the operator in order to form a valid part of the application.  b. An application filed pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall include a deposit in full of the prescribed application fee, of which 90% shall be refunded if the application is denied, and 10% retained and employed in defraying the expenses of the licensing authority in carrying out its functions under this act.  c. All applications by a natural person, partnership or unincorporated association of natural persons shall be duly sworn to by each of the applicants. An application by a corporation shall be duly sworn to by the president or vice president of the corporation. All statements in an application shall be deemed material, and any person who knowingly misstates any material fact therein shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.  d. Every applicant for a license shall, after filing the application, cause notice of the pendency of the application to be published, in a form prescribed by the licensing authority, once a week for two weeks successively in a newspaper, printed in the English language, published and circulated in the county in which the premises for which the license, or renewal thereof, are located. The notice shall include the time and place of the public hearing prescribed in section 6 of this act, and the second publication thereof shall be made not less than one week nor more than two weeks prior to the date set by the licensing authority for that hearing.  L.1993,c.290,s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-14 - Conditions for refusing license, public hearing

40:52-14. Conditions for refusing license, public hearing  6. a. In conducting its investigations pursuant to section 5 of this act, a licensing authority shall hold a public hearing, at which the applicant, the operator or proposed operator and all other parties in interest including members of the general public, shall be entitled to be heard upon the merits of the application and the suitability of the premises proposed for licensing. The time and place of the public hearing shall be determined within 30 days of receipt of the application, and shall be communicated to the applicant in sufficient time to enable compliance with the publication requirement under section 4 of this act.  b. No license shall be issued which would result in increasing the total number of persons authorized to be residents in rooming or boarding houses within the municipality to (1) more than 100 in a municipality having a population of 20,000 or fewer, or (2) to more than one-half of one percent of the population in any other municipality; but nothing in this subsection shall warrant refusal of a license or license renewal for premises where a rooming or boarding house has been in lawful operation prior to the enactment of this act.  c. No license shall be issued for premises when any part of the boundary line of the premises is within 1,000 feet of the boundary line of any other premises for which a license is in force; in the case of a municipality with a population greater than 100,000, according to the latest federal decennial census, this standard may be increased to 2,000 feet, at the discretion of the licensing authority; but nothing in this subsection shall warrant refusal of a license or license renewal for premises where a rooming or boarding house has been in lawful operation prior to the enactment of this act.  d. Any municipality with a population greater than 100,000 according to the latest federal decennial census may refuse to grant a license for any rooming and boarding house to be situated in a neighborhood zoned as single family residential.  L.1993,c.290,s.6.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-15 - Issuance, renewal of license

40:52-15. Issuance, renewal of license  7. a. After the public hearing pursuant to section 6 of this act, the licensing authority shall determine, in accordance with the requirements under section 5 and, when appropriate, section 6 of this act, whether to grant the license. A license when issued shall be valid for one year from the date of issuance and until such time as the licensing authority has acted upon an application for renewal, unless sooner terminated by revocation pursuant to the terms of this act.  b. Not later than the 60th day preceding the anniversary date of issuance, the holder of a license shall make application to the licensing authority for its renewal. Application for a renewal shall follow the same procedure and requirements as prescribed for a new application and shall necessitate de novo consideration and determination by the licensing authority in the same manner as a new application.  L.1993,c.290,s.7.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:52-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:52-16 - Revocation, non-renewal of license.

40:52-16 Revocation, non-renewal of license.  8. a. A licensing authority may revoke or refuse to renew a license granted under this act for any of the following reasons:  (1) A finding that there was any misstatement of material fact in the application upon which the license was issued. (2) The occurrence of any fact which, had it occurred and been known to the licensing authority before issuance of the license, would have resulted in the denial of the application. (3) Repeated violations, or prolonged failure to correct any violation, of any applicable building, housing, health or safety code or regulations, including municipal regulations adopted in accordance with section 2 of P.L.1993, c.290 (C.40:52-10). (4) Refusal to allow access to any portion of the licensed premises at all reasonable times, with or without advance notice, in order that officers or agents of the licensing authority, or any official charged with enforcement within the municipality of any building, housing, health or safety code or regulations applicable to the premises may determine compliance with such codes or regulations. (5) Revocation by the Department of Community Affairs of the operator's license or other authorization to operate a rooming or boarding house on the premises. (6) Notification by the Department of Community Affairs that the premises are not, or are no longer suitable for operation of a rooming or boarding house on the premises. (7) Failure or refusal to comply with any lawful regulation or order of the licensing authority. (8) A determination by the municipal licensing agency that the issuance or renewal of a license to such a person would be contrary to the best interests of the residents of any rooming or boarding house or of the public generally. b. A license shall not be revoked until five days' prior notice of the grounds therefor has been served upon the licensee, either personally or by certified mail addressed to the licensee at the licensed premises, and a reasonable opportunity given to the licensee to be heard thereon. L.1993,c.290,s.8; amended 1997, c.344, s.3.