Bill Text: NJ A4367 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes annual issuance of permit to sell alcoholic beverages at seasonal farm market.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-26 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [A4367 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4367-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman VINCENT MAZZEO
District 2 (Atlantic)
SYNOPSIS
Authorizes annual issuance of permit to sell alcoholic beverages at seasonal farm market.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning permits authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages and amending R.S.33:1-74.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. R.S.33:1-74 is amended to read as follows:
33:1-74. a. To provide for contingencies where it would be appropriate and consonant with the spirit of this chapter to issue a license but the contingency has not been expressly provided for, the director of the division may for special cause shown, subject to rules and regulations, issue temporary permits. The fee for a one-day permit authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on a designated premises by a civic, religious, educational or veterans organization shall be $100 and for a one-day permit authorizing such sale by any other organization, $150. The fee for a seasonal permit authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages on a designated premises serving as a farm market held on a recurring basis, such as daily, weekly, or monthly during a specified period of time in a calendar year, shall be no more than $500. The fee for any other type of temporary permit shall be determined in each case by the director of the division and shall not be less than $10 nor more than $2,000, payable to the director of the division and to be accounted for by the director as are license fees.
b. As to any designated premises such temporary permits shall not exceed in the aggregate 25 in any one calendar year, but the director of the division may by said rules and regulations provide for a lesser number in the aggregate for any such designated premises in any one calendar year.
c. The issuance of temporary permits to authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages by the glass or other open receptacle by civic, religious, educational, veterans or other qualified organizations shall be permissible, notwithstanding that the sale of alcoholic beverages has otherwise been prohibited by referendum under R.S.33:1-44 through R.S.33:1-47 or municipal ordinance or resolution.
(cf: P.L.2003, c.117, s.28)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
The bill requires the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) in the Department of Law and Public Safety to offer a seasonal permit authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages on a designated premises serving as a farm market held on a recurring basis, such as daily, weekly, or monthly during a specified period of time in a calendar year. The fee for this permit would be no more than $500.
Currently, the ABC only offers a one-day permit authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on a designated premises. The fee for the one-day permit is $100 for a civic, religious, educational or veterans organization and $150 for any other organization. Therefore, a person needs a distinct and separate permit for each day during which he or she participates in the farm market, even if it is held on a recurring basis (e.g., a farm market operating once a week for two months would require eight or nine permits). This bill eliminates these redundant permit applications and issuances by providing for one permit to span the season in which the farm market operates.
