Bill > A3024

Introduced Session

This bill allows the holder of plenary or farm winery license to also hold a plenary retail consumption license for the purpose of selling other alcoholic beverages and operating a restaurant adjoining the winery premises. Under current law, the holder of a plenary or farm winery license is entitled to manufacture wine to sell for consumption on and off the licensed premises. Plenary retail consumption licenses are generally issued to bars and restaurants and allow the licensee to sell any alcoholic beverage for consumption on the licensed premises. This bill would make a plenary and farm winery license similar to a restricted brewery license, which allows the licensee to brew beer and sell other alcoholic beverages, provided a restaurant is operated on licensed premises. Current law limits the number of plenary retail consumption licenses that a municipality may issue based on population. This bill would not increase the number of plenary retail consumption licenses that a municipality is permitted to issue. Under the bill, the winery licensee would be required to also obtain a plenary retail consumption license and operate a restaurant on the premises. The annual fee to hold both licenses would be $1,250. The bill would exclude land used for the sale and consumption of alcohol under a plenary retail consumption license from eligibility for the farmland tax assessment under the "Farmland Assessment Act of 1964," P.L.1964, c.48 (C.54:4-23.1 et seq.). The bill would also exclude income from such sales from eligibility in relation to the income requirements of the "Farmland Assessment Act of 1964."

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Clinton Calabrese (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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