GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
SESSION LAW 2003-20
SENATE BILL 294
AN ACT to allow the craven county alcoholic beverage control board to provide its own law enforcement personnel and to contract for additional law enforcement services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 18B-501(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f)
Contracts with Other Agencies. - Instead of of, or in addition to, hiring
local ABC officers, a local board may contract to pay its enforcement funds
to with a sheriff's department, city police department, or other
local law-enforcement agency for enforcement of the ABC laws within the law-enforcement
agency's territorial jurisdiction. Enforcement agreements may be made with more
than one agency at the same time. When such a contract for enforcement
exists, the those officers of the contracting law-enforcement
agency designated in the contract shall have the same authority to
inspect under G.S. 18B-502 that an ABC officer employed by that local board
would have. have once the designated officers of the contracting law
enforcement agency have been certified by the chief ABC officer as having been
trained. In order to be certified, the designated officers shall receive the
same training in the enforcement of ABC laws as is provided to local ABC
officers. If a city located in two or more counties approves the sale of
some type of alcoholic beverage pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 18B-600(e4),
and there are no local ABC boards established in the city and one of the
counties in which the city is located, the local ABC board of any county in
which the city is located may enter into an enforcement agreement with the
city's police department for enforcement of the ABC laws within the entire
city, including that portion of the city located in the county of the ABC board
entering into the enforcement agreement. The local ABC board, upon 20 days'
written notice, may cancel enforcement agreements authorized by this
subsection.
Payments, if any, received by a contracting agency for furnishing law enforcement services shall be in addition to any profits allocated to local governments derived from the sale of alcoholic beverages."
SECTION 2. This act applies to the Craven County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board only.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of April, 2003.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ Richard T. Morgan
Speaker of the House of Representatives