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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="29-902" title_number="29" title_name="Somerset County" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Beer, Wine, and Liquor Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board may issue the license for use at a hotel or motel that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>accommodates the public, providing services ordinarily found in a hotel or motel;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has a lobby with registration, mail desk, and seating facilities; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>maintains at least:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>10 rooms for occupancy by guests if the hotel was in operation on June 1, 1967; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>20 rooms for occupancy by guests if the hotel started operations after June 1, 1967, with the hotel facilities assessed for State and county taxation at an amount that is at least $45,000.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board may issue the license for use at a restaurant that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>serves full–course meals at least twice daily;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>exclusive of bar seating or counter seating, has table seating for at least 50 individuals; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>for the 12 months immediately before the application for the license, has daily average receipts from the sale of food that exceed the daily average receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The license authorizes the license holder to sell at retail at the place described in the license:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>beer, wine, and liquor for on–premises consumption; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>beer for off–premises consumption.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The annual license fee is $1,265.</text>
  </level>
</section>
