AN ACT TO extend THE SUNSET ON THE LAW GOVERNING TRANSPORTATION OF OPEN CONTAINERS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 21 of Session Law 2000‑155 reads as rewritten:
"Section 21. Section 4 of this act is effective September 1, 2000, and expires September 30, 2006. Sections 19 and 20 of this act are effective when those sections become law. The remainder of this act becomes effective September 1, 2000, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of July, 2002.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 1:40 p.m. this 22nd day of July, 2002