GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1991

CHAPTER 976
SENATE BILL 1090

AN ACT TO ALLOW CERTAIN CITIES OF UNDER THREE HUNDRED POPULATION TO HOLD ABC ELECTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 18B-600 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(e3)	Small Town Mixed Beverage Elections. – A town may hold a mixed beverage election if the town has at least 200 registered voters and is located in a county bordering the Neuse River and Pamlico Sound that has not approved the sale of mixed beverages and that county has only one city that has approved the sale of mixed beverages.  Provided, that if a town that qualifies for an election under this subsection approves the sale of mixed beverages, mixed beverages permittees in the town may purchase liquor from the ABC store designated by any local ABC board in any other city that has approved the sale of mixed beverages."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of July, 1992.

James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives