(A) License. Each applicant shall pay to the Clerk an annual fee as provided in division (B) of this section. The portions of the fee required under divisions (B)(l) and (B)(2) of this section shall be submitted with the application and shall be nonrefundable. When an application has been approved by decision pursuant to § 101.05 by the Township Committee, the Clerk shall notify the applicant of the approval, and the Township Clerk shall issue a premises license to the applicant in accordance with the decision for use only by the intended operator disclosed in the applicant's application. The premises license shall state on its face the numbers of automatic commercial game machines (each of which may have more than one coin slot) which may be operated at one time at the licensed premises, which number shall never exceed 150, and the number of children's rides not included within the definition of "automatic commercial game" or "game" contained in § 101.01 which may be operated at one time at the licensed premises, which number for establishments other than indoor amusement parks shall never exceed two. All terms and provisions of the applicant's application and all conditions and limitations, if any, imposed pursuant to § 101.05(B) and/or every other section hereof shall be and be deemed, for all purposes, part of the license issued, whether or not expressed on the face of the license. Nothing herein shall relieve the applicant or establishment from securing the annual mercantile license issued in accordance with Chapter 110 of the Code of the Township of Voorhees.
(B) Fees. The applicable fee for an annual license or renewal thereof, subject to division (C) of this section, shall be the aggregate of the following:
(1) One thousand dollar application fee.
(2) An investigation charge for each individual whose fingerprints are submitted; the investigation charge shall be in the amount of the fee charged by the external governmental agency which will perform the fingerprint investigation process (which amount shall be determined by the Township Police Department) and shall be delivered by a separate check made payable as directed by the Township Police Department.
(3) An amount equal to the lesser of: $250; or $10 times the number of automatic commercial games, payable before the issuance of the license in the case of an application which shall have been approved.
(C) Period less than a year. Where the applicable license period begins later than January 1 of a year, neither the $1,000 portion of the fee referred to in division (B)(l) of this section nor the fee referred to in division (B)(2) of this section shall be prorated, but the portion of the fee referred to in division (B) of this section shall be prorated accordingly. Where the period ends before December 31 of a year, no part of the fee shall be prorated.
(Ord. 185-11, passed 4-11-11)