The New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (Division of ABC or, simply, ABC) is an agency of the government of the state of New Jersey that regulates commerce in alcoholic beverages in that state.
[3] The Division of ABC is headed by a Director, who is appointed by the Governor of New Jersey with the advice and consent of the State Senate.
Investigations of violations of the ABC law are conducted by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Enforcement Unit in the Division of State Police which, like the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, is within the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety under the state attorney general.
In June 2017, State Assemblyman Dave Rible was nominated by Governor Chris Christie to head the department.
Rible was confirmed to the position of Director by the State Senate and appointed the following month.