The New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (Division of ABC or, simply, ABC) is an agency of the government of the state of

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that regulates commerce in

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s in that state. The

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, which ended the

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, permitted the states to regulate matters related to alcohol. Immediately upon the end of Prohibition in 1933, New Jersey instituted the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, codified as "Title 33 Intoxicating Liquors" of the New Jersey Statutes, which established the state ABC.State of New Jersey - Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control
"History of the Division."
Retrieved 8 February 2013. These laws are expanded through administrative

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s in Title 13, Chapter 2 of the

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. After New Jersey's 1947

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was adopted and some departments were consolidated, the department was incorporated into the Division of Law and Public Safety under the

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's office. The Division of ABC is headed by a Director, who is appointed by the

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with the advice and consent of the

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. Investigations of violations of the ABC law are conducted by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Enforcement Unit in the Division of

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which, like the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, is within the

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under the state attorney general. In June 2017, State Assemblyman

Dave Rible David P. Rible (born August 28, 1967) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served as Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control since July 2017. He had previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly re ...

was nominated by Governor

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to head the department. Rible was confirmed to the position of Director by the State Senate and appointed the following month.

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