GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

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HOUSE BILL 234

Short Title:        Correct Tech. Error Pender County ABC Laws.		(Local)
Sponsors:	Representative Millis (Primary Sponsor). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to:	Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Alcoholic Beverage Control, if favorable, Finance.

March 7, 2013

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to correct a technical error in THE DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN NET PROFITS FROM THE PENDER COUNTY BOARD OF ALCOHOLIC CONTROL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The introductory language of Section 3 of S.L. 2012-125 reads as rewritten:

"SECTION 3.  Section 6 of Chapter 50 of the 1963 Session Laws, as rewritten by Section 1 of Chapter 277 of the 1973 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:"

SECTION 2.  Section 6 of Chapter 50 of the 1963 Session Laws, as rewritten by Section 1 of Chapter 277 of the 1973 Session Laws, and as amended by Section 3 of S.L. 2012-125, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 6.  After deducting not less than five percent (5%) nor more than fifteen percent (15%) of total net profits to be expended for law enforcement and after providing for expenditure of a sum not less than two percent (2%) nor more than five percent (5%) of total future net profits, and current funds, to provide facilities, material for the care, education, rehabilitation, treatment of alcoholic, mental patients, for education of the general public on the excessive use of alcoholic beverages, or distribution to various Pender County Rescue Squads, at intervals and in amounts determined by the Pender County Board of Alcoholic Control, and after further payment to the general fund of Pender County of five percent (5%) of total net profits for use in mosquito control, the remaining total net profits from Alcoholic Beverage Control Stores shall, pursuant to G.S. 18B-805(e), be paid over on a quarterly basis as follows: sixty-five percent (65%) to the general fund of Pender County, and the remaining thirty-five percent (35%) shall be distributed as follows:

(1)        Seventy percent (70%) of the remaining thirty-five percent (35%) shall be distributed to the Town of Burgaw and the Town of Surf City as follows:

a.         Forty percent (40%) of the seventy percent (70%) to the Town of Burgaw.

b.         Sixty percent (60%) of the seventy percent (70%) to the Town of Surf City.

(2)        Thirty percent (30%) of the remaining thirty-five percent (35%) shall be distributed to each of the following municipalities according to each municipality's percentage of population within Pender County, as determined by the last decennial federal census:

a.         Town of Atkinson.

b.         Village of St. Helena.

c.         Town of Topsail Beach.

d.         Town of Watha."

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.