GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 766
AN ACT TO PERMIT CERTAIN SMALL CITIES TO HOLD ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ELECTIONS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 18B-600 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(e1) Small City Mixed Beverage Elections. A city may also hold a mixed beverage election if the city has at least 300 registered voters and is located in a county with at least one other city that has approved the sale of mixed beverages. Provided, that if a city that qualifies for an election under this subsection approves the sale of mixed beverages, mixed beverages permittees in the smaller city 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 shall not apply to Alamance, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Carteret, Cleveland, Henderson, Onslow, Polk, Robeson, Rowan, Rutherford, and Wilkes Counties.
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1987.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of August, 1987.