GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 243

SENATE BILL 726

 

AN ACT TO REGULATE SUNDAY SALES AND CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 18B-1004(c) reads as rewritten:

"(c)      Sunday Hours. - It shall be unlawful to sell or consume alcoholic beverages on any licensed premises from the time at which sale or consumption must cease on Sunday morning until 1:00 P.M. 12:00 Noon on that day."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 18B-1004(d) reads as rewritten:

"(d)      Local Option. - A city may adopt an ordinance prohibiting in the city the retail sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, and fortified wine during any or all of the hours from 1:00 P.M. 12:00 Noon on Sunday until 7:00 A.M. on the following Monday. A county may adopt an ordinance prohibiting, in the parts of the county outside any city, the retail sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, and fortified wine during any or all of the hours from 1:00 P.M. 12:00 Noon on Sunday until 7:00 A.M. on the following Monday.  Neither a city nor a county, however, may prohibit those sales in establishments having brown-bagging or mixed beverages permits."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 1993.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives