GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	2 

SENATE BILL 838
Second Edition Engrossed 4/29/97

Short Title:  Tourism Resort ABC Permits.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Ballance.

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Referred to:  Commerce.

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April 14, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH TOURISM RESORTS AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL COMMISSION TO ISSUE PERMITS TO THESE ENTITIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 18B-101 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(14b)	'Tourism resort' means any restaurant and lodging facility owned and operated as a resort property offering food, beverage, lodging, and meeting facilities to travelers and tourists and featuring one or more golf courses or featuring tennis courts along with other recreational and sporting activities."
Section 2.  G.S. 18B-603(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f)	Permits Not Dependent on Elections. – The Commission may issue the following kinds of permits without approval at an election:
(1)	Special occasion permits;
(2)	Limited special occasion permits;
(3)	Brown-bagging permits for private clubs and congressionally chartered veterans organizations;
(4)	Culinary permits, except as restricted by subdivision (d)(5);
(5)	Special one-time permits issued under G.S. 18B-1002;
(6)	All permits listed in G.S. 18B-1100;
(7)	On-premises malt beverage permits and on-premises unfortified wine permits for a tourism ABC establishment;
(8)	On-premises malt beverage permits, on-premises unfortified wine permits, on-premises fortified wine permits, and mixed beverage permits for qualified establishments located within a tourism resort."
Section 3.  G.S. 18B-404(b) is rewritten to read:
"(b)	Issuance. – If mixed beverages sales have been approved for an establishment under the last paragraph of G.S. 18B-603(d) or under G.S. 18B-603(e), the purchase-transportation permit for that establishment may be issued by the local board of any city located in the same county as the establishment, provided the city has approved the sale of mixed beverages. Otherwise a licensed establishment may obtain a mixed beverages purchase-transportation permit only from the local board for the jurisdiction in which it is located.  If there is no ABC store within the establishment's jurisdiction, then the mixed beverages permittee shall obtain a mixed beverages purchase-transportation permit from the nearest ABC store."
Section 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.