N.J. Stat. § 33:1-33

No license shall be issued to any person to whom a license shall have been issued under an act entitled "An act concerning the manufacture, distribution and sale of certain beverages having an alcoholic content and providing for licenses, regulations and fees in connection therewith and penalties for violations thereof," approved April twelfth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three (L.1933, c. 85, p. 176), as amended and supplemented, or under this chapter, and who shall have failed to pay to this state or to any municipality of this state any tax, license fee or penalty which shall have accrued pursuant to the provisions of said act and of this chapter and of subtitle 8 of the title Taxation (s. 54:41-1 et seq.), unless such person shall have posted with the state tax commissioner, or the municipality, as the case may be, a cash deposit in an amount, or a bond in form, with sureties and in an amount satisfactory to the state tax commissioner, or the municipality, as the case may be, to secure the payment of said tax, license fee or penalty, and this provision shall remain in force and effect notwithstanding the repeal of any of the aforesaid laws.