NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 1273
HOUSE BILL 1425

AN ACT TO SUPPLEMENT REGULATION AND CONTROL OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, AND TO SUPPLEMENT ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING LAWS CONCERNING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. In addition to the authority of the State Board of Alcoholic Control and in addition to all other powers and duties now vested in the Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, all alcoholic beverage control officers now employed, or who may hereafter be employed, by said Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, and all law enforcement officers and peace officers of Mecklenburg County and of any municipality within Mecklenburg County as shall be designated by the Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for such purposes, shall have the authority to: (a) investigate the operation of the licensed premises of all persons holding any permit enumerated or mentioned in Section 1, above, (b) to examine the books and records of such permittee, (c) to procure evidence with respect to any violation of the provisions of Chapter 18 of the General Statutes of North Carolina (as the same may be amended from time to time) and of any rules and regulations adopted thereunder. Such officers shall have the right to enter any such licensed premises in Mecklenburg County in the performance of their duty, at any hour of the day or night when any activity is being carried on, in, on or at such premises, for which activity any permit enumerated or mentioned in Section 1 above has been issued. Refusal by such permittee or by any employee of a permittee to permit such officers to enter the premises shall be cause for revocation or suspension of the permit of such permittee. All such alcoholic beverage control officers, law enforcement officers and peace officers so employed or designated by the Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall, after taking the oath prescribed for peace officers, have the same powers and authorities, including the right to serve all criminal process and to make arrests, as other peace officers.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after the date of its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of July, 1967.