GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION
S.L. 1997-224
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 18B-501(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f) Contracts with Other
Agencies. - Instead of of, or in addition to, hiring local ABC
officers, a local board may contract to pay its enforcement funds to 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 those officers of the contracting
law-enforcement agency designated in the contract shall have the same
authority to inspect under G.S. 18B-502 that an ABC officer employed by that
local board would have. once the designated officers of the
contracting law enforcement agency have been certified by the chief ABC officer
as having been trained. In order to be certified, the designated officers
shall receive the same training in the enforcement of the ABC laws as is
provided to local ABC officers. 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. Enforcement
agreements authorized by this section may be cancelled by the local ABC board
upon 20 days' written notice.
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.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of June, 1997.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives