NJ towns are now allowed to designate open container areas

By: Rebecca King
NorthJersey.com
USA Today Network - New Jersey

..... Open container areas - where you can drink beer, wind and spirits openly - could be coming to your town.
..... Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a bill (S-2921 and A-5554) that allows municipalities to designate outdoor areas where people can drink alcoholic beverages. After sailing through both houses, it reached Murphy's desk on Tuesday. [01/18/2022]
..... Towns will now be allowed to designate the entire municipality or a section of it, such as a park or a few blocks of a downtown, as an "open container area," a pocket where people over 21 carry and drink open containers of alcoholic beverages. In other words, adults in these areas would be able to sip on a white Claw with the same ease and legality as a Coke.
..... Each municipality will have to hold a public hearing to discuss the benefits of creating an open container area before the ordinance can take effect.
..... An alcoholic drinks sold in the areas would be subject to statutory law, rules and regulations.
..... The bill was sponsored by Senators Vin Gopal, D-Monmouth, and Linda Greenstein, D-Middlesex, Assemblymen Eric Houghtaling, D-Monmouth, and Raj Maukherji, D-Hudson, and Assemblywomen Joann Downey, D-Monmouth.

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