Bill Text: NJ A2935 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits certain municipalities to issue additional plenary retail consumption licenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A2935 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2935-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CAROLINE CASAGRANDE
District 11 (Monmouth)
SYNOPSIS
Permits certain municipalities to issue additional plenary retail consumption licenses.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act permitting certain municipalities to issue additional plenary retail consumption licenses and amending P.L.1947, c.94.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 2 of P.L.1947, c.94 (C.33:1-12.14) is amended to read as follows:
2. a Except as otherwise provided in [this act] P.L.1947, c.94 and subsection b. of this section, no new plenary retail consumption or seasonal retail consumption license shall be issued in a municipality unless and until the combined total number of such licenses existing in the municipality is fewer than one for each 3,000 of its population according to the most recent estimates issued by the U.S. Bureau of the Census; provided, however, in the year that the official federal decennial counts are received by the Governor, those federal decennial counts shall be used. No new plenary retail distribution license shall be issued in a municipality unless and until the number of such licenses existing in the municipality is fewer than one for each 7,500 of its population according to the most recent estimates issued by the U.S. Bureau of the Census; provided, however, in the year that the official federal decennial counts are received by the Governor, those federal decennial counts shall be used.
b. The governing body of a municipality in which 12% or more land is exempt from property taxes according to the most recent estimates issued by the appropriate county board of taxation, may issue up to two new plenary retail consumption licenses, in addition to those permitted under subsection a. of this section.
(cf: P.L.1999, c.189, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill permits a municipality in which 12% or more land is exempt from property taxes to issue up to two additional plenary retail consumption licenses.
Under current law, a municipality may not issue a new plenary retail consumption license until the combined total number of licenses in the municipality is fewer than one for each 3,000 persons. Because of this restriction, a municipality that contains land that is exempt from local property taxes and therefore, generally not used for residential purposes, is permitted fewer licenses as the number of persons living in that municipality is reduced.
This bill addresses this by allowing a municipality in which 12% or more land is exempt from property taxes to issue up to two new plenary retail consumption licenses, in addition to the licenses permitted under current law.
