NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 506

SENATE BILL 326

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 18-124, RELATING TO BALLOTING IN BEER AND WINE AND ABC ELECTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Subsection (f) of G.S. 18-124 is hereby amended by deleting the last sentence in subsection (f) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"In such case it shall be within the discretion of the city or county board of elections, or the governing body of any municipality, as the case may be, to place the questions pertaining to the sale of beer and/or beer and wine and the establishment of Alcoholic Beverage Control Stores on the same ballot or on separate ballots, unless the petition presented to the board, signed by the requisite number of citizens, specifies the method and manner of balloting, in which case the same would be controlling. Provided further, that when the calling of an election is provided by special act to determine whether Alcoholic Beverage Control Stores shall be operated in any city or county, the city or county board of elections or the governing body of any municipality may place the questions pertaining to the sale of beer and/or beer and wine and the establishment of Alcoholic Beverage Control Stores on the same ballot and in the same question whenever such special act does not require a petition or does not provide sufficient time for compliance with G.S. 18-124 or G.S. 18-127."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of May, 1965.