NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 789

SENATE BILL 620

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 18-60 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT VEHICLES ILLEGALLY TRANSPORTING LIQUOR IN CERTAIN CASES SHALL NOT BE CONFISCATED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 18-6 is hereby amended by adding at the end of the second sentence thereof a proviso to read as follows:

"Provided, that the transportation of the legal amount of alcoholic beverages, as denned in G.S. 18-60, in the passenger area of the motor vehicle with the cap or seal on the container or containers open or broken, shall not be ground for confiscation of the motor vehicle."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 11th day of June, 1969.