Clerk’s Office

Correspondence can be mailed to:

Commercial Township
Attn: Municipal Clerk
1768 Main Street
Port Norris, NJ 08349
Fax #: (856) 785-9420

Duties and Requirements of the Municipal Clerk’s Office

• Secretary to the Governing Body
• Creates and Maintains all permanent records
• Registrar of Vital Statistics. Handles all items in reference to Vital Statistic. (Marriage licenses, Death, Marriage and Birth Certificates, maintain vital statistic records, etc…)
• Dog/Cat Registrar. Handles all licensing of cats and dogs for the Township
• Amusement Licensing Official
• Alcoholic Beverage Licensing Official
• Election Official
• Solicitation Official
• Registered Agent with the New Jersey Division of Fish and Game. (Allows the Clerk’s Office to sell hunting, fishing, bow and arrow, trapping, sportsman licenses, etc…)***
• Records Manager
• Maintains personnel files

***Hunting, fishing, bow and arrow, trapping and sportsman licenses are sold at the Clerk’s Office Monday through Friday during office hours.