New Jersey
Alcohol delivery laws in New Jersey
Who is actually delivering
The hours below are the shop's. A courier working for a retailer is bound by that retailer's window, so an order placed inside it and delivered outside it is the shop's problem rather than yours, and shops decline late orders for exactly that reason.
Licensing is separate from hours. Whether a particular shop may deliver at all depends on the permits it holds, which vary within a state, so the source list below is the law on hours rather than on who may hold a licence.
Beer in New Jersey
Grocery and convenience
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Package store
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Bar or restaurant
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Wine in New Jersey
Grocery and convenience
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Package store
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Bar or restaurant
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Liquor in New Jersey
Package store
| Day | Latest legal sale hours |
|---|---|
| Every day |
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Common questions
- Can you get alcohol delivered in New Jersey?
- Delivery in New Jersey runs on the same hours as the shop sending it, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the outside.
- What time does alcohol delivery stop in New Jersey?
- When the shop's own selling window closes. New Jersey treats a delivery as a sale, so it cannot happen at a time the shop could not sell over the counter.
Sources
- N.J.S.A. 33:1-40 (Municipal regulation of hours of sale)
- N.J.A.C. 13:2-38 (Limitation of hours for sale at retail of alcoholic beverages in original containers for off-premises consumption)
- N.J.S.A. 33:1-40.3 (Municipal regulation of hours of sale)
- New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Handbook for Retail Licensees
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