NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 330
HOUSE BILL 771

AN ACT TO REPLACE ANNUAL MALT BEVERAGE AND WINE PERMITS WITH PERMANENT PERMITS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 18A of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by rewriting G.S. 18A-37 in its entirety to read as follows:
"§ 18A-37.  Permit and license required. — Malt beverages and wine (fortified and unfortified) may be manufactured, bottled or sold in this State only after the person desiring to engage in such activity has acquired an appropriate permit from the State Board of Alcoholic Control as provided in this Article, and has secured the license or licenses required by Article 2C, Subchapter I, Chapter 105 of the General Statutes.
Permits for salesmen for a wholesale distributor of malt beverages or wine (fortified or unfortified) and permits for the retail and wholesale sale of malt beverages and wine shall continue until voluntarily surrendered to the board, or until suspended or revoked by the board, or in the event of change of location, change of ownership, or death of the owner.
All other permits shall be for a period of one year unless sooner revoked or suspended and shall expire on April 30 of each year.
The State Board of Alcoholic Control shall arrange to computerize the files for permits as soon as feasible and once computerized shall retain a permanent number for each permit."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 18A-42(a) is amended by deleting "and shall renew the permit by May 1 of each succeeding year thereafter" from the first sentence of the section and by adding at the end of that section the following:
"A salesman's permit shall continue until voluntarily surrendered to the board, or until suspended or revoked by the board, or until the salesman ceases to be employed by the employer for whom he was working when he obtained his most recent permit."
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1975.