Bill Text: NJ S2328 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Permits bowling alleys, including alleys licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, to conduct amusement games.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-22 - Substituted by A621 (1R) [S2328 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2328-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator NILSA CRUZ-PEREZ
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
Permits bowling alleys, including alleys licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, to conduct amusement games.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee on December 12, 2016, with amendments.
An Act permitting bowling alleys, including alleys licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, to conduct amusement games and supplementing P.L.1959, c.108 (C.5:8-78 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The operator of a bowling alley 1located anywhere in this State1, including a bowling alley for which a plenary retail consumption license as defined in R.S.33:1-12 has been issued, shall be eligible to be issued for that premises an amusement game license, pursuant to P.L.1959, c.109 (C.5:8-100 et seq.), provided that the premises includes at least 1[10] 161 United States Bowling Congress (USBC) sanctioned bowling lanes, at least 40 amusement games, and meets all other requirements for licensure to conduct amusement games.
1In any bowling alley that has been issued an amusement game license:
not more than 50 percent of the amusement games shall be games that allow a player to attempt to win merchandise by manipulating a mechanical claw or crane; and
a redemption center at which players may exchange tickets they have won for prizes shall be open at all times that the facility is open to the public.1
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
