An ordinance introduced and passed on first reading at the last Long Beach Township Board of Commissioners meeting would add the requirement of a mercantile license to sell goods or services from a fixed location, or to solicit business or offer goods or services for sale or for hire from a fixed location, within the municipality.

“Except in those cases where a different license is required by another provision of the township code or by the laws of the state of New Jersey, no person shall…