Bill Text: NJ A5398 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows sale of malt alcoholic beverages in cans or bottles marked for deposit of another state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-06-30 - Substituted by S3782 [A5398 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A5398-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 5398

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 8, 2023

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JAMES J. KENNEDY

District 22 (Middlesex, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Allows sale of malt alcoholic beverages in cans or bottles marked for deposit of another state.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning deposit marked containers 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 manufacturer, supplier, importer, brand registrant, wholesale or retail licensee or permittee shall be permitted to sell, distribute, or market for resale to a consumer in this State or purchase for resale to a consumer in this State any malt alcoholic beverage product packaged in a bottle or can marked for deposit of another state.

     b.    Nothing in this section shall be deemed to establish a deposit system in this State.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill allows the sale of malt alcoholic beverages in cans or bottles marked for deposit of another state.

     Under current regulations, N.J.A.C.13:2-27.2, a manufacturer, supplier, importer, brand registrant, wholesale or retail licensee or permittee is prohibited from selling, distributing, or marketing for resale to a consumer in this State or purchasing for resale to a consumer in this State any malt alcoholic beverage product, except for malt coolers, packaged in a bottle or can marked for deposit of another State.

     This bill allows a manufacturer, supplier, importer, brand registrant, wholesale or retail licensee or permittee to sell, distribute, or market for resale to a consumer in this State or purchase for resale to a consumer in this State any malt alcoholic beverage product packaged in a bottle or can marked for deposit of another state.

     The bill also provides that the bill's provisions are not to be deemed to establish a deposit system in this State.  A deposit system charges a deposit on a container at the time of purchase which is returned to the consumer when the empty container is returned.