2020 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 33 - Intoxicating Liquors
Section 33:1-12.14 - New retail licenses; limitation.
33:1-12.14 New retail licenses; limitation.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this act, no new plenary retail consumption or seasonal retail consumption license shall be issued in a municipality unless and until the combined total number of such licenses existing in the municipality is fewer than one for each 3,000 of its population according to the most recent estimates issued by the U.S. Bureau of the Census; provided, however, in the year that the official federal decennial counts are received by the Governor, those federal decennial counts shall be used. No new plenary retail distribution license shall be issued in a municipality unless and until the number of such licenses existing in the municipality is fewer than one for each 7,500 of its population according to the most recent estimates issued by the U.S. Bureau of the Census; provided, however, in the year that the official federal decennial counts are received by the Governor, those federal decennial counts shall be used.
L.1947,c.94,s.2; amended 1960, c.72; 1969, c.170, s.1; 1971, c.196; 1999, c.189.
