GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SENATE BILL 17
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL COMMISSION TO ISSUE PERMITS TO TOURISM RESORTS ON A STATEWIDE BASIS.

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:
a.	Any restaurant and lodging facility, whether public or private, 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 and two or more tennis courts along with other recreational and sporting activities, or
b.	Any restaurant, whether public or private, owned and operated as a resort property offering food and beverage to travelers and tourists and featuring an equestrian center and two or more tennis courts along with other recreational and sporting activities.
Receipts from sporting and recreational activities of a tourism resort shall be at least twenty-five percent (25%) of total gross receipts.  Receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of total gross receipts.  A tourism resort open to the public shall advertise at least quarterly in a regional or national travel or sports industry publication, or in the State travel guide published by the North Carolina Department of Commerce."
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)	The permits authorized by G.S. 18B-100(1), (3), (5), and (10) for tourism resorts."
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of July, 1999.

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	Dennis A. Wicker
	President of the Senate

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	James B. Black
	Speaker of the House of Representatives

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	James B. Hunt, Jr.
	Governor

Approved 	.m. this 	 day of 	, 19