NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 925

HOUSE BILL 1257

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 930 AND REPEAL CHAPTER 1240 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1963 RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL STORES IN THE TOWN OF BURNSVILLE, YANCEY COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 1240 of the Session Laws of 1963 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. Section 1 of Chapter 930, Session Laws of 1963, is rewritten to read as follows: "Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Burnsville may on its own motion, and shall upon receipt of a valid petition signed by a number of qualified voters of the Town equal to at least fifteen per cent (15%) of the whole number of voters who participated in the last preceding regular municipal election, order an election to be held on the question of whether or not a town liquor control store may be operated in the Town of Burnsville, and if a majority of the votes cast in such election shall be for the operation of such a store, it shall be legal for a liquor control store to be set up and operated in said Town, but if a majority of the votes cast in said election shall be against the operation of a town liquor control store, no such store shall be set up or operated in said Town under provision of this Act."

Sec. 3. Section 7 of Chapter 930, Session Laws of 1963, is rewritten to read as follows: "Sec. 7. The net profits derived from the operation of a liquor control store in the Town of Burnsville shall be allocated, quarterly, as follows: (a) Seventy per cent (70%) to the General Fund of the Town of Burnsville. (b) Twenty per cent (20%) to the General Fund of the County of Yancey. (c) Ten percent (10%) to the Board of Education for Yancey County to be used for the purposes of recreational and athletic activities.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1969.