Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Aug 30, 2013 |
The New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control has released a revised Alcoholic Beverage Control Handbook for retail licensees. The NJ ABC Handbook provides a summary of many subjects that retail licensees may encounter during their day to day operations.
The revised July, 2013 ABC handbo...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Dec 19, 2012 |
Municipalities in New Jersey have the ability to issue new liquor licenses as the population grows. New Jersey municipalities can offer one plenary retail consumption liquor license (used for a bar, tavern or restaurant) for every 3,000 residents. The population has grown significantly enough for...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Jun 18, 2012 |
The initiation of a person to person transfer of a New Jersey liquor license is started by the filing of a complete 12 page application form and the required filing fees with the municipality. Thus, until a transfer has been approved by resolution, only the current licensee may operate the licens...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Jun 01, 2012 |
The New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Law refers to brew pubs as a “Restricted Brewery License.” This license allows the manufacture of malt alcoholic beverages so long as they produce less than 3,000 barrels per license term.
Restricted Brewery License
The ABC also requires that this “...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | May 03, 2012 |
Wineries throughout the country will now be able to ship wine directly to New Jersey residents for the first time. The law also allows for licensed retail establishments to open tasting rooms in New Jersey, provided they obtain the necessary license issued by the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Co...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Apr 25, 2012 |
Much of New Jersey's laws from the Department of Law & Public Safety: Office of the Attorney General: Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) deal with how and with what methods bars (retail licensees) may offer complimentary drinks. The general rule is that a licensee cannot sell any alcoho...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Apr 24, 2012 |
In New Jersey, customers of an unlicensed restaurant may be permitted by the restaurant to bring their own wine or beer unless there is as municipal ordinance prohibiting it. However, restaurant owners may not advertise the fact that they are a B.Y.O.B. friendly restaurant. They also may not allo...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Oct 20, 2011 |
Largely due to the decline in the economy, liquor licenses in New Jersey are becoming more available and affordable than years past. New Jersey municipalities can offer one plenary retail consumption liquor license (used for a bar, tavern or restaurant) for every 3,000 residents and one plenary r...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Aug 09, 2011 |
Given the recent spike of underage drinking, fake ID, and other related charges written in Monmouth County and Ocean County, it is not surprising that liquor license owners, bartenders, and managers are worried. There is a heightened need among owners to hire bouncers, off-duty police officers, a...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Jul 15, 2011 |
For every extra 3,000 people that reside in a town, one more plenary retail consumption license may be issued. (New Jersey Statute 33:1-12.14). This is exactly where Howell Township found itself after the 2010 census, which estimated the township's population at 51,075. As a result, Howell has op...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Jun 02, 2011 |
On November 9, 2006, Frederick Voss was injured when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle operated by Kristoffe Tranquilino in Toms River, New Jersey. Voss, whose blood alcohol content was nearly two and a half times the legal limit at .196, pled guilty to DWI. Mr. Voss then filed a dram shop c...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Apr 28, 2011 |
The New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control has released a revised Alcoholic Beverage Control Handbook for retail licenses. The revised April 2011 ABC handbook is available at the New Jersey ABC website. The last revision was November 2010.
See this link to download the April 2011 Handb...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Mar 29, 2011 |
In the recent unpublished Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division case of North Star Saddle Brook Management, LLC v. Township of Saddle Brook and NJ Division of ABC, Docket No. A-3009-09T3, the Court summarized the procedure to be followed for a municipality to issue a new plenary retail...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Mar 11, 2011 |
The New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control has released a revised Alcoholic Beverage Control Handbook for retail licensses. The revised November 2010 ABC handbook is available at the New Jersey ABC website.
See this link to download a copy: New Jersey ABC Handbook.
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Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Mar 09, 2011 |
One penalty for violating New Jersey ABC laws is an Order of Suspension. An Order of Suspension prohibits the license holder from selling any alcohol on the premises for the duration of the suspension of their license and also prohibits the license holder from serving, delivering or permitting th...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Jan 27, 2011 |
For years local New Jersey wineries have enjoyed advantages over their out of state counter parts when selling wine to locals and when dealing with their competition. That appears to have been changed by a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In Freeman v. Corzine t...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Dec 20, 2010 |
It is within the power of the New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Control to enter establishments selling alcoholic beverages through their retail liquor licenses and request to see their accounting and record keeping books.
In the busy day to day activities of running an establishment many New Jersey ...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Dec 16, 2010 |
Though it may be tempting for business owners of retail liquor licenses throughout New Jersey to purchase the alcohol they sell at their own establishments from any number of sources, New Jersey ABC regulations largely prohibit business owners from doing so.
According to New Jersey Administrative...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Dec 12, 2010 |
New Jersey law requires that every individual who has an interest in an alcoholic beverage license be disclosed, unless the interest is less than one percent of the stock of the corporation. See N.J.S.A. 33:1-25.
In order to make these disclosures, the license holders must disclose the individual...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Oct 26, 2010 |
A frequently recurring issue involved in the sale of alcohol and the licenses granted to do so is the distance required between establishments holding liquor licenses located in the same municipality.
Municipalities differ in the amount of distance required in between establishments holding liquo...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Oct 25, 2010 |
An important and recurring issue for the owners of establishments providing for the sale of alcoholic beverages, or holding a liquor license, is the amount of distance that the New Jersey state regulations require the establishment to be located from schools and churches. The relevant state statu...
Posted by Carmine R. Villani | Aug 29, 2010 |
If you are the owner of a retail liquor license in the State of New Jersey it is extremely important that you read the Alcoholic Beverage Control Handbook for Retail Licensees. The ABC handbook can be found on the State of New Jersey, Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control's website. The ABC hand...