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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