2009 New Jersey Code
TITLE 33 - INTOXICATING LIQUORS
Section 33:1
33:1-76 - Sales within 200 feet of church or school prohibited;  waiver; exceptions

33:1-76.  Sales within 200 feet of church or school prohibited;  waiver; exceptions
    Anything to the contrary hereinbefore notwithstanding, and for the benefit not of property but of persons attendant therein, no license shall be issued for the sale of alcoholic beverages within two hundred feet of any church or public schoolhouse or private schoolhouse not conducted for pecuniary profit, except to manufacturers, wholesalers, hotels, clubs and fraternal organizations  which owned or were actually in possession of the licensed premises on December  sixth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.  The protection of this  section may be waived at the issuance of the license and at each renewal  thereafter, by the duly authorized governing body on authority of such church  or school, such waiver to be effective until the date of the next renewal of  the license.  Said two hundred feet shall be measured in the normal way that a  pedestrian would properly walk from the nearest entrance of said church or  school to the nearest entrance of the premises sought to be licensed.

    The prohibition contained in this section shall not apply to the renewal of  any license where no such church or schoolhouse was located within two hundred  feet of the licensed premises as aforesaid at the time of the issuance of the  license, nor to the issuance or renewal, or both, of any license where such  premises have been heretofore licensed for the sale of alcoholic beverages or  intoxicating liquors, and such church or schoolhouse was constructed or  established, or both, during the time said premises were operated under said  previous license.