DIVISION OF COMMERCE
The Division of Commerce issues various business licenses and conducts various enforcement activities:
- Issue city licenses and collect such fees as approved by the Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control
- Review applications for taxi driver hack licenses and bus driver hack licenses
- Review applications for permits for the operation of taxicabs
- Supervise the collection of franchise taxes payable to the City of Jersey City
- Administer the insurance requirements of the New Jersey Department of Insurance relating to taxicabs and buses
- Conduct hearings on complaints against holders of taxicabs and bus licenses
- Perform all the functions authorized in Chapter 319, Towers and Towing
- Review applications for public weighmasters
- Conduct various inspections and testing, including but not limited to:
- The inspection, testing, adjusting and the sealing or condemnation of all commercial scales and measuring devices in use by wholesale and retail establishments
- The testing and sealing of gasoline pumps
- The calibration of fuel tank trucks.
- The testing of liquid measures, oil meters, laundry scales, heavy-duty truck scales and all types of scales and measuring devices in general use.
- The investigation and reporting on applications for public weighmasters.
- The investigation of complaints of violations and presentation of evidence thereof in municipal courts.
- The issuance of solid fuel and live poultry licenses.
- Conduct mechanical inspections of taxicabs and buses
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