Bill Text: NJ A1547 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A1547 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A1547-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 1547

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOHN S. WISNIEWSKI

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman  CRAIG J. COUGHLIN

District 19 (Middlesex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Green, Gusciora, Ramos, Assemblywoman Lampitt and Assemblyman Prieto

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning alcoholic beverage licenses and supplementing chapter 1 of Title 33 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    In an appeal to the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control regarding actions taken by a local issuing authority with respect to an alcoholic beverage license, a party shall be permitted to offer a properly authenticated video recording or transcript of testimony given by a witness at a proceeding before the local issuing authority in lieu of producing the witness at the hearing if:

     a.     The testimony was given under oath;

     b.    The testimony before the local issuing authority involved the same matter and;

     c.     All parties were present at the proceeding before the local issuing authority and were afforded a full opportunity to cross-examine the witness. 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill eliminates the need for a witness in an alcoholic beverage license case to testify twice regarding the same matter.  The bill permits a properly authenticated video recording or transcript of testimony given at a proceeding before a local issuing authority to be admissible in an appeal hearing before the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control if the testimony was given under oath, involved the same matter that is being appealed, and all parties were present at the prior hearing and had a full opportunity to cross examine the witness.