The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq. applied to violations of the Governor's COVID-19 orders
- Issued
- 2020-12-11 Dec. 11, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-12-11 (charges issued; minimum 10-day suspension for each licensee) (read as 2020-12-11)
- End
- n/a (enforcement record) (read as 2020-12-31)
- In force
- Dec. 11, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitFace-covering requirementCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- specified businesses: bars and restaurants holding liquor licenses
- Character
- enforcement record
- Collection
- Standing duties: New Jersey DUT-NJ
Operative words
Since EO 194 took effect on November 12, 2020, teams of investigators from ABC, the Division of Criminal Justice, and local law enforcement agencies have been carrying out inspection sweeps of bars and restaurants statewide to enforce compliance... Those who flout curfews, seating restrictions, face covering mandates, and other mitigation measures will face consequences.
Penalty
Liquor license suspension, minimum 10 days per licensee
What it required
The State's chief law-enforcement officer announced statewide inspection sweeps to enforce the Governor's orders against licensed establishments and charged ten licensees, each facing at least a 10-day suspension, for violating the 10:00 p.m. indoor service cessation, the bar-seating prohibition and related requirements. Character as recorded: enforcement_record (press release; order_penalty layer).
Retrieval noteRendered from the Wayback Machine's capture of Dec. 12, 2020 (1.5 MB). The PDF's text layer interleaves the site's navigation menu with parts of the body text; the quoted sentences were read in full from the live page in this session and appear in the exhibit's text layer with that interleaving. The release states the quoted sentences and lists the ten licensees and the penalties sought.