A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the requirements that must be met before certain small towns may hold a mixed beverage election.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 18B‑600(e3) reads as rewritten:
"(e3)	Small Town Mixed Beverage Elections. – A town may hold a mixed beverage election if the town (i) has at least 200 registered voters, 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 or (ii) has at least 200 registered voters, has a total area of less than one square mile, operates an ABC store, and is located in a county that has at least three cities that have 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."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.