Sponsored by:
Senator CARMEN F. AMATO, JR.
District 9 (Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Allows certain alcoholic beverage retail licenses to be transferred with annexed municipal land.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning alcoholic beverage licensing and supplementing Title 33 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A plenary retail consumption license that is used in connection with a premises located on land that is annexed pursuant to N.J.S.40A:7-12 shall be transferred to the governing body of the municipality that annexes the land.
b. A municipality from which land is annexed pursuant to N.J.S.40A:7-12 and that transfers a plenary retail consumption license pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be entitled to issue a new plenary retail consumption license at public sale pursuant to P.L.1975, c.275 (C.33:1-19.1 et seq.) in order to supplant any license transferred pursuant to this section.
c. The population limitation established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1947, c.94 (C.33:1-12.14) shall not apply to a license transferred or issued pursuant to this section.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill establishes a procedure for the transfer of an alcoholic beverage plenary retail consumption license, generally issued to bars and restaurants, when municipal land is annexed by another municipality.
Current law provides for the annexation of land in one municipality into another existing municipality through a petition process. Under this bill, a plenary retail consumption license used in connection with a premises located on land that is annexed would be transferred to the governing body of the municipality that annexes the land. The bill also allows a municipality from which land is annexed that transfers a plenary retail consumption license to issue a new plenary retail consumption license at public sale in order to replace any transferred license.
Under current law, a municipality may issue plenary retail consumption licenses until the combined total number in the municipality is fewer than one license for each 3,000 municipal residents. This population limitation would not apply to a license transferred or issued under the bill's provisions.