Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.

A1883

ASSEMBLY, No. 1883

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER

District 28 (Essex and Union)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within
1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

��

An Act
concerning location of alcoholic beverage sales and
amending R.S.33:1-76.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� R.S.33:1-76 is amended
to read as follows:

���� 33:1-76.� 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
]

1,000
feet of any church
or religious institution
or
1,000
feet of any
public schoolhouse or private schoolhouse
, licensed child
care center, registered family day care home, and unified child care agency

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
that is located within 200 feet of any
church or religious institution, public schoolhouse or private schoolhouse,
licensed child care center, registered family day care home or unified child
care agency
on December
[
sixth,
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three
]

6th, 1933 or within 1,000 feet but in excess of in excess of 200 feet of any
church or religious institution, schoolhouse or private schoolhouse, licensed
child care center, registered family day care home or unified child care agency
before the effective date of P.L.��� , c.�� (C.���� ) (pending before the
Legislature as this bill)
.� 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
religious
institution, or
school
, licensed child care center, registered family
day care home or unified child care agency,
such waiver to be effective
until the date of the next renewal of the license.� Said
[
two hundred
]

200 or
1,000
feet shall be measured in the normal way that a pedestrian would
properly walk from the nearest entrance of said church
or religious
institution,
or school
, licensed child care center, registered family
day care home or unified child care agency,
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
, licensed child care center, registered family day care home or unified
child care agency
was located within
[
two
hundred
]

1,000
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
, licensed child care center, registered family day care home or
unified child care agency
was constructed or� established, or both, during
the time said premises were operated under said� previous license.

(cf: R.S.33:1-76)

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill would increase the
zone around a school or church, where sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited
from the current 200 feet to 1,000 feet.� The bill would also apply the 1,000
feet restriction to religious institutions, licensed child care centers,
registered family day care homes or unified child care agencies.

���� The bill would exempt sales by
persons conducting sales within less than 200 feet from a school who obtained
their licenses prior to December 6th, 1933 and persons conducting sales more
than 200 feet but less than 1,000 feet from a church or religious institution,
school, licensed child care center, registered family day care home or unified
child care agency who obtain their licenses prior to the enactment of this bill
into law.�