NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1018

HOUSE BILL 185

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 18-51 SO AS TO PROHIBIT THE TRANSPORTATION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN VEHICLES FOR HIRE UNLESS SUCH BEVERAGES BELONG TO A PASSENGER THEREIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 18-51(1) is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"It shall be unlawful for any person operating a for hire passenger vehicle as defined in G.S. 20-38(20)b to transport alcoholic beverages except when the vehicle is actually transporting a bona fide paying passenger who is the actual owner of the alcoholic beverages being transported, such alcoholic beverages owned and possessed by each passenger shall be transported in the manner and amount authorized by this Section, provided that the provisions of G.S. 20-16(a)(8) shall not apply to a person convicted under this Act, Provided, that the transportation of up to one gallon of alcoholic beverages, as defined in G.S. 18-60, shall not be ground for confiscation of the motor vehicle."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1969.