NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 837

HOUSE BILL 1365

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14-306 AS IT RELATES TO ARCADE AMUSEMENT MACHINES AND DEVICES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-306 is hereby amended by deleting therefrom the last sentence and by adding thereto a new paragraph which shall read:

"The definition contained in the first paragraph of this section does not include, and shall not be construed as including, coin operated machines or devices designed and manufactured for amusement and the operation of which depends in part upon the skill of the player. Included within this exception, are pinball machines and other arcade amusement devices which award a limited number of replays which are not convertible to money or other things of tangible value, and which do not require a federal gaming device tax stamp."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1977.