Bill Text: NJ A1694 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes fees for daily and annual permits to sell alcoholic beverages at farm markets.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-10-13 - Combined with A4118/1949 (ACS) [A1694 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-A1694-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Establishes fees for daily and annual permits to sell alcoholic beverages at farm markets.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the sale of alcoholic beverages at farm markets 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 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, shall be no more than $25 for a daily permit and no more than $500 for an annual permit. 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
This bill requires the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) in the Department of Law and Public Safety to offer an annual permit and a daily permit authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages on a designated premises serving as a farm market.
Currently, the ABC only offers a one-day permit authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on a designated premises. With regard to a farm market held on a recurring basis, such as weekly or bi-weekly for a period of months each year, a person needs a distinct and separate permit for each day during which the person participates in the market. The current fee for the one-day permit is $100 for a civic, religious, educational or veterans' organization, and $150 for any other organization.
This bill eliminates these redundant permit applications and issuances by providing for an annual permit to span the calendar year in which the farm market operates. The fee for the annual permit would be $500.
The bill also authorizes the issuance of a daily permit for a fee of $25. This permit would provide a lower cost option to applicants wishing to participate in farm markets on a more limited basis.
