SENATE, No. 193

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

 

 

By Senator CAFIERO

 

 

An Act concerning temporary permits for 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 $50.00 and for a one-day permit authorizing such sale by any other organization, $75.00. 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 $5.00 nor more than $1,000.00, 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. The limits provided in this subsection shall not apply to municipal and other government-owned facilities.

    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.1992, c.188, s.13)

 

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    The Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) in the Department of Law and Public Safety may issue temporary permits to civic, religious, educational and veterans organizations to sell alcoholic beverages on designated premises. Although the ABC presently limits the number of temporary permits allowed at designated premises to 25 in a calendar year, the director is authorized to provide for a lesser number at any such designated premises. This bill would exempt municipal and other government-owned facilities from these restrictions on the number of permits issued.

 

 

 

Exempts government-owned facilities from certain ABC permit restrictions.