GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

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HOUSE BILL 1751

Committee Substitute Favorable 5/2/07

Short Title:     Allowing Consumption by Employee or Agent.	(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

April 19, 2007

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to add employee or agent to the individuals who are prohibited from allowing possession or CONSUMPTION of alcoholic beverages not authorized by permits issued FOR the premises.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 18B‑300(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      Consumption at Off‑Premises Establishment. – It shall be unlawful to consume, or for a permittee permittee, a permittee's agent, or a permittee's employee to allow the consumption of, malt beverages or unfortified wine on any premises having only an off‑premises permit for the kind of alcoholic beverage being consumed."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 18B‑1006(d) reads as rewritten:

"(d)      Unlawful Possession or Consumption. – It shall be unlawful for a permittee permittee, a permittee's agent, or a permittee's employee to possess or consume, or allow any other person to possess or consume, on the licensed premises, any fortified wine or spirituous liquor, the possession or consumption of which is not authorized either by the permits issued to him the permittee for the premises or by any other provision of the ABC law."

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2007, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.