NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 586
SENATE BILL 453

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 18A-38 AND G.S. 18A-29 TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR TO OCEANGOING VESSELS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 18A-38 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection "(g)" which shall read as follows:
"(g)	Notwithstanding any provision of law contained in this Chapter or in Article 2C of Chapter 105 of the General Statutes, it shall be lawful for any wholesaler or retailer in possession of a valid permit issued by the State Board of Alcoholic Control to sell and deliver malt beverages and wine (both fortified and unfortified) for use or consumption by or on oceangoing vessels which ply the high seas in interstate or foreign commerce, in the transport of freight or passengers, or both, for hire exclusively, when delivered to an officer or agent of such vessel. The State Board shall have authority to promulgate regulations and rules governing the sale and delivery of such malt beverages and wine including the authority to issue such permits as may be reasonably required by the State Board."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 18A-29 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection "(c)" which shall read as follows:
"(c)	Notwithstanding any provision of law contained in this Chapter or in Article 2C of Chapter 105 of the General Statutes, spirituous liquors may be imported into North Carolina under United States customs bonds and may be held in North Carolina in United States customs bonded warehouses. Spirituous liquors may be removed from any such United States customs bonded warehouse, wherever situated within the State, to any other such warehouse located in the State and be held in the State. Such spirituous liquors so imported or removed to such warehouses in North Carolina shall be released from customs bonds in North Carolina only on permits issued by the State Board of Alcoholic Control for delivery to oceangoing vessels which ply the high seas in interstate or foreign commerce, in the transport of freight or passengers, or both, for hire exclusively, when delivered to officers or agents of such vessels for use or consumption on such vessels. Provided, the Board shall have the authority to issue permits as referred to in this subsection and shall have the power and authority to promulgate rules and regulations to control the release of said spirituous liquors from United States customs bonded warehouses and the delivery of same to ocean-going vessels."
Sec. 3.  G.S. 105-113.97 as the same appears in Volume 2D of the North Carolina General Statutes, is hereby amended on lines 1 and 7 after the word "beverages" by inserting the following: "and wine (fortified and unfortified)."
Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1975.