NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION
CHAPTER 1076
HOUSE BILL 1454
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OF ABC PURCHASE-TRANSPORTATION PERMITS TO PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF LIQUOR OFFENSES WITHIN THE PAST THREE YEARS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 18A-27 is amended by adding a new subsection (f) to read as follows:
"(f) No person convicted of, or who has entered a plea of guilty or no contest to, any offense involving the sale, possession or transportation of nontaxpaid liquor, or any offense involving the sale of intoxicating liquor without a permit, whether a State or federal offense, within a period of three years of applying for the purchase-transportation permit, shall be entitled to the provisions of this section and any permit issued to such person shall be invalid. Any person convicted of procuring a purchase-transportation permit in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by G.S. 18A-56."
Sec. 2. G.S. 18A-28 is amended by adding a new subsection (g) to read as follows:
"(g) No person convicted of, or who has entered a plea of guilty or no contest to, any offense involving the sale, possession or transportation of nontaxpaid liquor, or any offense involving the sale of intoxicating liquor without a permit, whether a State or federal offense, within a period of three years of applying for the purchase-transportation permit, shall be entitled to the provisions of this section and any permit issued to such person shall be invalid. Any person convicted of procuring a purchase-transportation permit in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by G.S. 18A-56."
Sec. 3. Chapter 286 of the 1979 Session Laws is amended by deleting Section 1 of that act.
Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.