GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

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HOUSE DRH80205-ML-156  (03/27)

Short Title:        Modify Requirements for In-Stand Beer Sales.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Hardister, Samuelson, L. Hall, and Moffitt (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to reduce the seating capacity requirement and eliminate the population requirement for in-stand sales of malt beverages.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 18B-1009 reads as rewritten:

"§ 18B-1009.  In-stand sales.

Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prohibit a retail permittee from selling for consumption, malt beverages in the seating areas of stadiums, ballparks, and other similar public places with a seating capacity of 60,0003,000 or more during professional sporting events, in municipalities with a population greater than 450,000, according to the most recent estimate of population made by the Office of State Budget and Management, provided that:

(1)        The seating areas are designated as part of the retail permittee's licensed premises;

(2)        The retail permittee has notified the Commission, in writing, of its intent to sell malt beverages in the seating areas at sporting events;

(3)        Service of food and nonalcoholic beverages is available in the seating areas;

(4)        The retail permittee has certified to the Commission that it has trained its employees:

a.         To identify underage persons and intoxicated persons; and

b.         To refuse to sell malt beverages to those persons as required by G.S. 18B-305; and

(5)        The employees do not verbally shout or hawk the sale of malt beverages."

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