Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) The Director, Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, shall establish and revise annually the course content and shall approve the individual instructors or lecturers who will conduct the training programs, in consultation with any non-profit educational organization he or she may have contracted with in accordance with 13:2-22.5.
(b) The curriculum for the initial training programs shall include, but is not limited to, an explanation and development of the following:
1. The provisions of the New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, 33:1-1 et seq., as it relates to the distribution, transportation, sale, and marketing of alcoholic beverages by retail distribution licensees; with detailed emphasis placed on the provisions of law governing the sale and delivery of alcoholic beverages to persons under the legal age;
2. The rules and regulations promulgated by the Director, Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, N.J.A.C. 13:2, governing the sale, advertising, transportation, required records, promotion and marketing of alcoholic beverages, the disciplinary and adjudicatory procedures and consequences attendant to violative activity, and the permitted and prohibited conduct and use of the license and the licensed premises;
3. The application of municipal ordinances and regulations concerning the licensure, hours of sale, location, restrictions and permitted use of retail licenses and licensed premises established by municipal governing bodies or municipal boards of alcoholic beverage control;
4. Relevant administrative policies and determinations of the Director, Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the requirements and procedures for the collection and remittance of New Jersey taxes, and other State and Federal laws and regulations that impact upon the retail alcoholic beverage industry of the State of New Jersey; and
5. The relationship and application of the 10 point legislative declaration of policy and purpose set forth in 33:1-3 to the conduct and use of retail liquor licenses.
(c) The curriculum for the supplemental training program shall include, but not be limited to, any changes in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act or other related laws affecting retail licensed businesses, new or amended regulations of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, administrative and judicial policy changes, prevailing market or societal conditions and reinforcement or further expansion of matters addressed in the initial training program or revisions thereto.
