<Li> may sell at off - premises events in open containers with Special Event Permit (up to 25 times per year) </Li> <P> The number of Class C retail licenses for bars, restaurants, and liquor stores is limited by population and often by municipal ordinances . Licenses are typically obtained from existing licensees who choose to sell, or when a new license is offered as a town's population grows . As a result, the price for a retail license is often prohibitively expensive . The sale of a new license is usually conducted by public auction . The intense competition can benefit a town by generating several hundred thousand dollars of revenue from the highest bidder . A 2006 license auction in Cherry Hill, New Jersey set the state record at $1.5 million . </P> <P> Supermarkets, convenience stores, and gas stations in New Jersey rarely sell alcoholic beverages because state law prohibits any person or corporation from possessing more than two retail distribution licenses . While licenses for bars, restaurants and liquor stores are limited, other retail licenses are not . Class C licenses can be granted without limit for common carriers (such as limousines and boats), private clubs with a minimum of 60 members, hotels with at least one - hundred rooms, and theatres with at least 1,000 seats . </P> <P> Special permits exist to allow for the sale of alcoholic beverages at golf courses, government - owned facilities, and at social events run by non-profit organizations (for example, church carnivals). A restaurant in New Jersey without a liquor license can sell wine from a New Jersey winery by becoming an offsite retail sales outlet of the winery . Since the early 1990s, there have been a handful of unsuccessful proposals to create a separate restaurant license allowing eating establishments to sell beer and wine . Such proposals have been strongly opposed by current retail license holders who believe that it would decrease their income, and thus the value of their liquor license . </P>

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