GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

SESSION LAW 2008-159

HOUSE BILL 1230

AN ACT to amend the law concerning the issuance of special one-time permits to nonprofit organizations.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 18B-1002(a)(2) reads as rewritten:

"(2)      A permit may be issued to a nonprofit organization to allow the retail sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, or fortified wine, or mixed beverages, or to allow brown-bagging, at a single fund-raising event of that organization. A permit for this purpose shall not be issued for the sale of any kind of alcoholic beverage in a jurisdiction where the sale of that alcoholic beverage is not lawful."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18^th day of July, 2008.

                                                                    s/ Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved 3:36 a.m. this 3^rd day of August, 2008