{"id":2445,"date":"2014-12-09T05:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T10:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2014-12-09T02:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T07:20:06","slug":"brick-council-to-vote-tonight-on-requiring-mercantile-licenses-for-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/12\/brick-council-to-vote-tonight-on-requiring-mercantile-licenses-for-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Council to Vote Tonight On Requiring Mercantile Licenses for Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brick Township\u2019s business district at Brick Plaza. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Businesses in Brick Township would be required to obtain a mercantile license under an ordinance up for a vote Tuesday night by the township council.<\/p>\n

The ordinance would require any person or company \u201cengaging in, conducting or operating\u201d a business within Brick Township to pay $25 annually for the license, the application for which would include the name and owner of the business, the present address and phone number of the business owner, a cell phone number of an in-state representative who could be called in case of an emergency, and information on any alarm system at the business and contact information for the alarm company.<\/p>\n

The mercantile license ordinance was introduced last month, with Council President Susan Lydecker explaining at the time that the measure was prompted by a number of instances where police or township officials could not find contact information for businesses in emergencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a few incidents in our township where there were problems around businesses or something happened inside a business and we were not able to get in touch with anyone after hours,\u201d said Lydecker, calling the ordinance a \u201cvaluable tool in protecting our community and our businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

No township officials commented at the ordinance\u2019s introduction as to how the $25 figure was decided upon for the fee, or how the revenue generated from the licenses would be spent. A separate measure up for a vote on Tuesday night is a resolution suspending the $25 fee for those businesses that apply before Jan. 31, 2015.<\/p>\n

Enforcement of the license would rest with the code enforcement office and police department. The ordinance carries penalties for those businesses that do not comply \u2013 a $500 fine could be levied for failure to comply with any portion of the ordinance. Further, the township could act to revoke a business\u2019s license for lying on the application form or conducting business \u201cin an unlawful manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Businesses in Brick Township would be required to obtain a mercantile license under an ordinance up for a vote Tuesday night by the township council. The ordinance would require any person or company \u201cengaging in, conducting or operating\u201d a business within Brick Township to pay $25 annually for the license, the application for which would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,685,154],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-mercantile-license","tag-township-council"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3200.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-Dr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}