NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1245

HOUSE BILL 1407

AN ACT TO AMEND AND REWRITE CHAPTER 1004, SESSION LAWS OF 1949, AND CHAPTER 671, SESSION LAWS OF 1969, TO AUTHORIZE THE WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF ALCOHOLIC CONTROL TO EXPEND FUNDS FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 1004, Session Laws of 1949, as amended by Chapter 671, Session Laws of 1969, is hereby deleted in its entirety and a new Section 1 is substituted therefor as follows: "Section 1. The Wayne County Board of Alcoholic Control, if and when established pursuant to election duly called and held, is authorized in its discretion to expend up to five per cent (5%) of the total net profits derived from the county stores for education as to effects of the use of alcoholic beverages and for the rehabilitation of alcoholics, provided that, before any educational program may be instituted the same shall be subject to the approval of the Wayne County Board of Commissioners.  The said Wayne County Board of Alcoholic Control is authorized and directed to turn over to each of the municipalities in Wayne County in which county liquor control stores are hereafter established fifty percent (50%) of the net profits derived from the operation of the store or stores located in such municipality, provided that the Wayne County Board of Alcoholic Control shall spend not less than five per cent (5%) nor more than ten per cent (10%) of such net profits before a division thereof to pay officers employed by said board of services in enforcing the provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.  Said Wayne County Board of Alcoholic Control shall turn over the other half of the net profits from the operation of the County Liquor Control Stores in Wayne County, after the expenditure of the sums herein specified for the enforcement of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, to the General Fund of Wayne County.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 2nd day of July, 1969.