1965/66/67 session laws – Ch.405 Sec.1
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CHAPTER 405 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE RIGHT TO PETITION FOR MUNICIPAL LIQUOR CONTROL STORES IN INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES IN ROBESON COUNTY, ESTABLISHMENT OF SAME UPON AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING FOR THE ALLOCATION OF NET PROCEEDS FROM THE OPERATION THEREOF. , The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The governing body of each incorporated municipality in Robeson County which has a population in excess of 1,000 people upon a written petition to said governing body signed by at least twenty-five per cent -25% of the registered and qualified voters of the municipality, who voted in the last municipal election, may order an election to be held on the question of whether or not a municipal liquor control store may be operated in the municipality. If a majority of the votes cast in such election shall be for the operation of such stores, it shall be legal for liquor control stores to be set up and operated in said municipality; but if a majority of the votes cast in said election shall be against the operation of a liquor control store, no such store shall be set up or operated in said municipality under provisions of this Act.