691-22 AMC.pdf

691-22 June 28, 2022 TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE, ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY WEST ORANGE ABC BOARD RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Township Council of the Township of West Orange serves as the Township of West Orange Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control; and WHEREAS, an application has been filed by AMC Entertainment International, Inc., t/a AMC Theaters Essex Green 9, at 495 Prospect Avenue, West Orange, New Jersey, for renewal of its Plenary Retail Consumption License # 0722-33-066-009, for the period July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, the Application submitted to the Township Clerk and in compliance with New Jersey State Laws regulating the sale, consumption, and distribution of alcoholic beverages; and WHEREAS, at its regular meeting on June 29, 2010, the Township Council, sitting as the Township ABC Board, approved the person to person and place to place transfer of License No. 0722- 33-066-009, from SHO, Inc., to AMC Entertainment International, Inc., t/a AMC Theaters Essex Green 9, at 495 Prospect Avenue, West Orange, New Jersey, subject to the following special conditions: 1. All current security and off-duty police officers shall continue in accordance with past practice and resolutions (i.e., two (2) officers on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights); 2. The business will not establish a policy whereby people under eighteen (18) years old must be accompanied by a parent or guardian in order to be on the premises unless such condition is affirmatively removed by the Township ABC Board; and 3. To the extent that the Licensee wishes to remove Condition No. 2, they may seek such relief before the Township ABC Board and in the event the Township ABC Board refuses to remove such condition, the Licensee fully preserves all of its rights, remedies and defenses including the right to appeal to the Director of Alcoholic Beverage Control for the State of New Jersey or such other entity or authority as may have jurisdiction; and WHEREAS, after the aforesaid approval memorialized in ABC Resolution #443-10, the Licensee, AMC Entertainment International, Inc., t/a AMC Theaters Essex Green 9, expressed the strong desire to limit the admission of minors under the age of eighteen (18) years to those accompanied by a parent or guardian, citing the risks inherent in a darkened movie theater environment combined with the presence of alcoholic beverages on the premises, the New Jersey

years to those accompanied by a parent or guardian, citing the risks inherent in a darkened movie theater environment combined with the presence of alcoholic beverages on the premises, the New Jersey tradition and practice of very strict regulation of ABC Licensees, and expressing the Licensee’s firm wish and intent to comply with and foster the strict enforcement of the ABC statutes and regulations both to protect its own considerable investment in the Licensed premises, in its dine-in theater business plan, and to fulfill the underlying rationale for ABC regulations, the protection of the public health and safety; and WHEREAS, the ABC Board acknowledged and appreciated all of those concerns and considerations, as well as the benefits to the local economy of the Licensee’s investment and successful operation, and agreed to remove the earlier imposed special condition no. 2, in ABC Board Resolution 443-10, and because removal of special condition no. 2 made special condition no. 3 superfluous, agreed to remove that condition as well; and