NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 956

SENATE BILL 230

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 18‑39 RELATING TO THE LOCATION OF LIQUOR STORES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Amend G.S. 18‑39(j) by rewriting the first sentence in said subsection, ending with the word "stores" in line 10, to read as follows:

"(j)       To approve or disapprove, in its discretion, the opening and location of county stores; provided that in the location of control stores in any county in which a majority of the votes have been cast for liquor control stores, no store or stores shall be located in any community or town in which a majority of the votes cast were against control; provided further however, that stores may be located in such communities and towns if and when as many as 15% of the qualified voters therein by petition, at any time after eighteen months since the last election on such question, have requested the location of such a store or stores in such communities or towns and the State Board shall have found, upon due investigation after receipt of such petition, that a majority of the qualified electors in such community or town are at the time of the making of such investigation in favor of the establishment of such store or stores, provided each county that may be entitled to operate stores for the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be entitled to operate at least one store for such purpose."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1961.