GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 436*

Short Title:  Mecklenburg ABC Law Enforcement.	(Local)

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Sponsors: Senators Winner and Odom.

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Referred to:  State Government, Local Government, and Personnel.

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March 20, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW THE MECKLENBURG COUNTY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD TO PROVIDE ITS OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL AND TO CONTRACT FOR ADDITIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 18B-501(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f)	Contracts with Other Agencies. – Instead of, or in addition to, hiring local ABC officers, a local board may contract with a sheriff's department, city police department, or other local law-enforcement agency for enforcement of the ABC laws within the law-enforcement agency's territorial jurisdiction.  Enforcement agreements may be made with more than one agency at the same time.  When such a contract for enforcement exists, the officers of the contracting law-enforcement agency shall have the same authority to inspect under G.S. 18B-502 that an ABC officer employed by that local board would have.  If a city located in two or more counties approves the sale of some type of alcoholic beverage pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 18B-600(e4), and there are no local ABC boards established in the city and one of the counties in which the city is located, the local ABC board of any county in which the city is located may enter into an enforcement agreement with the city's police department for enforcement of the ABC laws within the entire city, including that portion of the city located in the county of the ABC board entering into the enforcement agreement.
Payments, if any, received by a contracting agency for furnishing law enforcement services shall be in addition to any profits allocated to local governments derived from the sale of alcoholic beverages."
Section 2.  This act applies to the Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board only.
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.