GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION
CHAPTER 705
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OF SIGNATURES REQUIRED TO CALL AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ELECTION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 18B-601(b)(2) is amended by deleting "twenty-five percent (25%)", and substituting "thirty-five percent (35%)".
Sec. 2. G.S. 18B-602(c)(2) is amended by deleting "twenty-five percent (25%)", and substituting "thirty-five percent (35%)".
Sec. 2.1. G.S. 18B-601(f) is amended by adding the following at the end of the sentence:
"No alcoholic beverage election may be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November of an even-numbered year."
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective with respect to all petitions initiated under G.S. 18B-601 on or after September 1, 1985, except that Section 2.1 of this act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of July, 1985.