GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 137*

Short Title:  Monroe ABC Distribution.	(Local)
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Sponsors: Representative Griffin.
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Referred to:  Judiciary I.
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February 15, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MODIFY THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROFITS FROM THE CITY OF MONROE ABC SYSTEM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 7 of Chapter 541 of the 1963 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 7.  Out of the gross profits derived from the operation of said Alcoholic Beverage Control stores and after the payment of all costs and operating expenses, and after obtaining sufficient and proper working capital, the amount thereof to be determined by the City of Monroe Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control, said board shall expend an amount for law enforcement purposes of ten per cent (10%) thereof to be determined by quarterly audits, which amount shall supplement and not supplant the amount usually budgeted for such purposes by the City of Monroe.  In the expenditure of said funds, the City Board of Alcoholic Control shall employ one or more persons as law enforcement officer or officers to be appointed by and directly responsible to the said board.  The person or persons so appointed shall, after taking the oath prescribed by law for peace officers, have the same powers and authorities within Union County as other peace officers.  Any such person or persons so appointed, or any other peace officer while in hot pursuit of anyone found to be violating the prohibition laws of this State, shall have the right to go into any other county of the State and arrest such defendant therein so long as such hot pursuit of such person shall continue, and the common law of hot pursuit shall be applicable to said offenses and such officer or officers.  Any law enforcement officer appointed by the said Board of Alcoholic Control and any other peace officer is hereby authorized, upon request of the sheriff or other lawful officer in any other county, to go into such other county and assist in suppressing a violation of the prohibition laws therein, and while so acting shall have such powers as a peace officer as are granted to him in Union County and be entitled to all the protection provided for said officer while acting in his own county.
Out of the net profits derived from the operation of said Alcoholic Beverage Control stores, the City of Monroe Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control shall on a quarterly basis pay over to the following named governing bodies, departments, boards, and agencies amounts equal to the following percentages of the net profits which shall be expended by said governing bodies, departments, boards, and agencies for these purposes and none other as follows:
(a)	Fifty per cent (50%) to go to the general fund of the City of Monroe.
(b)	Twenty-five per cent (25%) to go to the general fund of Union County.
	(d)	Twenty-four percent (24%) to go the Union County Board of Education.
	(e)  One per cent (1%) to go to the Union County Library."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.