NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 1076

HOUSE BILL 1454

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OF ABC PURCHASE-TRANSPORTATION PERMITS TO PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF LIQUOR OFFENSES WITHIN THE PAST THREE YEARS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 18A-27 is amended by adding a new subsection (f) to read as follows:

"(f)       No person convicted of, or who has entered a plea of guilty or no contest to, any offense involving the sale, possession or transportation of nontaxpaid liquor, or any offense involving the sale of intoxicating liquor without a permit, whether a State or federal offense, within a period of three years of applying for the purchase-transportation permit, shall be entitled to the provisions of this section and any permit issued to such person shall be invalid. Any person convicted of procuring a purchase-transportation permit in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by G.S. 18A-56."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 18A-28 is amended by adding a new subsection (g) to read as follows:

"(g)       No person convicted of, or who has entered a plea of guilty or no contest to, any offense involving the sale, possession or transportation of nontaxpaid liquor, or any offense involving the sale of intoxicating liquor without a permit, whether a State or federal offense, within a period of three years of applying for the purchase-transportation permit, shall be entitled to the provisions of this section and any permit issued to such person shall be invalid. Any person convicted of procuring a purchase-transportation permit in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by G.S. 18A-56."

Sec. 3.  Chapter 286 of the 1979 Session Laws is amended by deleting Section 1 of that act.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.