Sponsored by:
Senator JAMES BEACH
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Revises certain licensee filing requirements for alcoholic beverage price lists.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning alcoholic beverages and supplementing Title 33 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Any licensee or registrant authorized to sell an alcoholic beverage to retailers in this State shall file a current price list as defined and prescribed by the director pursuant to rules and regulations and the provisions of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
2. a. (1) A licensee or registrant authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to retailers who sells less than 60 stock-keeping units per month of an alcoholic beverage may petition the director to file only an initial current price list no later than January 1 of each year in which the alcoholic beverage will be sold in this State.
(2) If the price of an alcoholic beverage in the initial current price list filed pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection has not changed, the licensee or registrant shall file with the director a certification stating the price is unchanged. The licensee or registrant shall file the certification no later than the 15th day of the month preceding the month in which an alcoholic beverage will be sold in this State. If the price of the alcoholic beverage changes, the licensee or registrant shall file an amendatory current price list with the director no later than the 15th day of the month preceding the month in which the price of the alcoholic beverage will change.
b. A licensee or registrant who sells 60 or more stock-keeping units per month of an alcoholic beverage shall comply with the provisions of section 1 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) and all rules and regulations concerning current price list filings.
3. The director shall permit a licensee or registrant required to file an initial or amendatory price list pursuant to section 1 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) to electronically file the price list.
4. Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall take effect immediately. Section 3 of this act shall take effect immediately, but shall be inoperative until the first day of the 37th month next following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill permits a licensee or registrant who sells less than 60 stock-keeping units per month of an alcoholic beverage to retailers in this State to petition the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to file only an initial current price list no later than January 1 of each year in which the alcoholic beverage will be sold. It also requires the licensee or registrant to file, by the 15th day of the month preceding the month in which the alcoholic beverage will be sold, either a certification stating that the price of the alcoholic beverage is unchanged or an amendatory price list if the price of an alcoholic beverage is to change.
Within three years, the director is required to permit electronic filing of an initial or amendatory price list.
Currently, ABC requires a current price list to be filed monthly regardless of the number of stock-keeping units of an alcoholic beverage sold per month.