GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 989*
Committee Substitute Favorable 5/7/91

Short Title:  Hotel Guest Room Cabinets.	(Public)
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April 19, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SEPARATE ABC PERMIT FOR HOTELS CHOOSING TO OFFER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES FROM LOCKED CABINETS IN GUEST ROOMS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 18B-1001 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(12)	Guest Room Cabinet Permit. – A guest room cabinet permit authorizes a hotel having a mixed beverages permit to sell to its room guests, from securely locked cabinets, malt beverages, unfortified wine, fortified wine, and spirituous liquor.  A permittee shall designate and maintain at least ten percent (10%) of the permittee's guest rooms as rooms that do not have a guest room cabinet.  A permittee may dispense alcoholic beverages from a guest room cabinet only in accordance with written policies and procedures filed with and approved by the Commission."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 18B-902(d) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(29)	Guest room cabinet permit. – $750.00."
Sec. 3.  G.S. 18B-903(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Renewal. – Application for renewal of an ABC permit shall be on a form provided by the Commission. An application for renewal shall be accompanied by an application fee of twenty-five percent (25%) of the original application fee set in G.S. 18B-902, except that the renewal application fee for each mixed beverages permit and each guest room cabinet permit shall be five hundred dollars ($500.00).  A renewal fee shall not be refundable."
Sec. 4.  G.S. 18B-804(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(9)	If the spirituous liquor is sold to a guest room cabinet permittee for resale, a charge of fifteen dollars ($15.00) on each four liters and a proportional sum on lesser quantities."
Sec. 5.  G.S. 18B-404(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	Size of Bottles. – A purchase-transportation permit for a mixed beverages permittee shall authorize the purchase and transportation only of 750 milliliter or larger containers.  A purchase-transportation permit for a mixed beverages permittee who is also a guest room cabinet permittee may authorize the purchase and transportation of containers in sizes approved by the Commission."
Sec. 6.  G.S. 18B-1007(b)(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)	Store any other spirituous liquor with liquor possessed for resale in mixed beverages or from a guest room cabinet;"
Sec. 7.  This act applies to those counties subject to G.S. 18B-600(f).
Sec. 8.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1991.