NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 892

HOUSE BILL 960

 

 

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE USE OF THE NET PROFITS FROM THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That in Cumberland County the monies representing the entire net profits derived by the county through the Cumberland County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board from the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be kept in a special fund or account to be known as the "Alcoholic Beverage Fund", said funds shall be used for the payment of the principal and interest, either or both, of the outstanding bonds of said county; provided, however, the Board of County Commissioners of Cumberland County is hereby authorized to annually appropriate from said Alcoholic Beverage Fund the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) to be used and expended in the discretion of said board of county commissioners for the prevention of alcoholism, the treatment and rehabilitation of emotional disorders and mentally disturbed persons; provided, further, the Board of County Commissioners of Cumberland County is hereby authorized to appropriate annually from said Alcoholic Beverage Fund the additional sum of not more than sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000.00) each fiscal year and to expend the same in the discretion of said board of commissioners for general fund purposes and/or any purpose authorized by the General Statutes of North Carolina.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 9th day of June, 1965.