772-25 Huguitos Restaurant and Bar, LLC -Special Conditions.pdf

772-25 June 24, 2025 TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE, ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY WEST ORANGE ABC BOARD RESOLUTION WHEREAS, an Application has been filed by Huguitos Bar and Restaurant LLC, 19 White Street, West Orange, NJ, for renewal of its Plenary Retail Consumption License # 0722- 33-024-005, for the period July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, 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, in May, 2018, following an ABC inspection, numerous ABC violations were observed and recommendations made for certain ABC violation charges to be brought against the Licensee, including, but not limited to, failure to provide a copy of the most recent full application and/or current renewal application, having an incomplete employee list, failure to have true book or books of account available on the licensed premises, failure to produce same within seven business days of demand, employee hindering an investigation, lease out of the License, and non-payment of required taxes, or failure of proof of payment of same, such charges currently pending; and WHEREAS, in February, 2009, notices of alcoholic beverage control charges, including seven separate allegations of violation of N.J.A.C. 13:2-23.6, prohibiting immoral activities, disturbance and nuisance on the premises, and two separate allegations of violation of N.J.A.C. 13:2-23.1(b), prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages to intoxicated persons, were brought by the Township of West Orange against Huguitos Bar and Restaurant, LLC, License # 0722-33- 024-005, and properly served upon that Licensee; and WHEREAS, the Township and the Licensee, each represented by counsel, in order to avoid the time and expense of a hearing on the charges, came to a mutually satisfactory agreement to resolve all of the charges; and WHEREAS, the Township Council of the Township of West Orange, sitting as and constituting the Township’s ABC Board, at its regular meeting held on the evening of March 24, 2009, having pursuant to the aforesaid agreement accepted a plea of non-vult to Count III of the ABC charges brought against the Licensee on February 18, 2009, alleging violation of N.J.A.C. 13:2-23.6, Prohibition Against Immoral Activities, Disturbance, and Nuisance on Premises, specifically that "The Licensee has

against the Licensee on February 18, 2009, alleging violation of N.J.A.C. 13:2-23.6, Prohibition Against Immoral Activities, Disturbance, and Nuisance on Premises, specifically that "The Licensee has violated N.J.A.C. 13:2-23.6, in that it has repeatedly and over a period of more than a year, allowed, permitted, or suffered in or upon the licensed premises brawls, acts of violence, disturbances and/or unnecessary noise, requiring many calls to and interventions by the West Orange Police Department, and numerous charges against the licensed premises, including, but not limited to, incidents and charges of such conduct occurring on September 8, 2007, May 7, 2008, May 18, 2008, June 22, 2008, August 17, 2008, August 28, 2008, and November 23, 2008, such that the operation of this licensed premises has been a nuisance."; and WHEREAS, in exchange for the non-vult plea of the Licensee, the agreement provided for a 10 day suspension of the license, 5 days to be held in abeyance for a period of one year and to be served in the event of a liquor license violation within that one year period of time, 5 days to be served commencing on a Sunday, and the voluntary restrictions in place since September,