NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1014

HOUSE BILL 1354

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 18A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO ALLOW THE SALE OF RICE-BASED WINES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 18A-2(2) as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement Volume 1-C of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(2)      'fortified wine' shall mean any wine that is made by fermentation from grapes, fruits, berries, or rice, to which nothing but pure brandy has been added, which brandy is made from the same type of grape, fruit, berry, or rice, that is contained in the base wine to which it is added and having an alcoholic content of over fourteen percent (14%) and not more than twenty-one percent (21%) of absolute alcohol, reckoned by volume; and is approved by the State Board of Alcoholic Control as to identity, quality, and purity as provided in this Chapter."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of March, 1974.