Old Bridge, NJ Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Old Bridge Township Code Chapter 14, Article I, adopted August 28, 1995 by Ordinance No. 40-95, flatly bars "live adult entertainment" at any premises holding a "C" license, "Broad C" license or club license for on-premises alcohol consumption. Section 14-2 defines the prohibited conduct as dancing by males or females in bathing-suit-style or other scant attire performing suggestive dances while patrons drink, commonly called "go-go dancing." Section 14-3 makes the prohibition absolute except as allowed elsewhere in the article. A narrow grandfather clause in Section 14-4 lets premises that already conducted such entertainment on or before June 19, 1995 keep doing so, but that exemption disappears the moment the liquor license changes hands, whether by a person-to-person or place-to-place transfer.

Section 14-5 goes further and writes the no-entertainment condition directly into every future license transfer, while still letting the Township Council attach additional conditions when it votes on a transfer. Section 14-6 requires the Township to mail a certified copy of the article to every affected on-premises licensee. Because the article targets license conditions rather than setting its own fine schedule, a violation exposes the licensee's alcoholic beverage license itself to action, and any other Code violation tied to the conduct falls back on the Township's general penalty in Chapter 1, Article II: up to a $1,250 fine, 90 days imprisonment, 90 days community service, or a combination, with each day of continued violation a separate offense under Section 1-4.