GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

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HOUSE BILL 1230

Committee Substitute Favorable 4/11/07

 Committee Substitute #2 Favorable 6/18/08

 Senate Finance Committee Substitute Adopted 7/15/08

Short Title:     Nonprofit & Tourism ABC Law Changes.	(Public)
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March 29, 2007

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to amend the law concerning the issuance of special one‑time permits to nonprofit organizations and to change the tourism abc establishment mileage requirement.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 18B‑1002(a)(2) reads as rewritten:

"(2)      A permit may be issued to a nonprofit organization to allow the retail sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, or fortified wine, or mixed beverages, or to allow brown‑bagging, at a single fund‑raising event of that organization. A permit for this purpose shall not be issued for the sale of any kind of alcoholic beverage in a jurisdiction where the sale of that alcoholic beverage is not lawful."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 18B‑101(14a) reads as rewritten:

"(14a)  "Tourism ABC establishment" means a restaurant or hotel that meets both of the following requirements:

a.         Is located on property, a property line of which is located within 1.52.5 miles of the end of an entrance or exit ramp of a junction on a national scenic parkway designed to attract local, State, national, and international tourists between the State line and Milepost 460.

b.         Is located in a county in which the on‑premises or off‑premises sale of malt beverages or unfortified wine is authorized in at least one city."

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.