NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1240

HOUSE BILL 1657

AN ACT REGARDING THE EFFECT OF ABC STORE ELECTIONS ON WINE SALES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 18B-603(c)(2) is amended by changing the period to a comma and adding the following:

"except that neither on-premises nor off-premises unfortified wine permits may be issued in a jurisdiction if:

a.         the jurisdiction approved ABC stores before the effective date of this Chapter;

b.         the jurisdiction held an unfortified wine election before the effective date of this Chapter; and

c.         in that unfortified wine election, the jurisdiction did not approve either on-premises or off-premises sales of unfortified wine."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1982.