1956/57 session laws – Ch.819 Sec.6

Out of the gross profits derived from the operation of said Alcoholic Beverage Control Stores and after the payment of all costs and operating expenses and after retaining sufficient and proper working capital, the amount thereof to be determined by the City of Southport Board of Alcoholic Control, said board shall further expend an amount as necessary for law enforcement purposes of not less than five per cent -5% nor more than ten per cent -10% thereof, to be determined by quarterly audit, which amount shall supplement and not supplant the amount usually budgeted for such purposes by the City of Southport. In the expenditure of 788 said funds, the City Board of Alcoholic Control shall employ one or more persons as law enforcement officer or officers to be appointed by and directly responsible to the said board. The person or persons so appointed shall, after taking the oath prescribed by law for peace officers, have the same powers and authorities within Brunswick County as other peace officers. And any such person or persons so appointed, or any other peace officer while in hot pursuit of anyone found to be violating the prohibition laws of this State, shall have the right to go into any other county of the State and arrest such defendant therein so long as such hot pursuit of such person shall continue, and the common law of hot pursuit shall be applicable to said offenses and such officer or officers. Any law enforcement officer appointed by the said Board of Alcoholic Control and any other peace officer are hereby authorized, upon request of the sheriff or other lawful officer in any other county, to go into such other county and assist in suppressing a violation of the prohibition laws therein, and while so acting, shall have such powers as a peace officer as are granted to him in Brunswick County and be entitled to all the protection provided for said officer while acting in his own county. Out of the net profits derived from the operation of said Alcoholic Beverage Control Stores, the City of Southport Board of Alcoholic Control shall, on a quarterly basis, pay over to the following named governing bodies, departments, boards, and agencies amounts equal to the percentages of the net profits which shall be expended by said governing bodies, departments, boards, and agencies for these purposes and none other as follows: (a) Twenty per cent -20% to the Brunswick County Board of Education for the benefit of the white and colgred schools of the county to be expended in the discretion of said board. Such amount shall supplement and not supplant the amount normally budgeted by the governing bodies of Brunswick County for this purpose. (b) Ten per cent -10% to the City of Southport for the use and benefit of the Southport High School and the Brunswick County Training School, such funds te be expended by the city treasurer as directed by the local school board of each of said schools on an equal share basis. (c) Ten per cent -10% to the City of Southport for debt service and retirement of bonds. Such amount shall supplement and not supplant the amount usually and normally budgeted by the city for this purpose. (d) Five per cent -5% to the City of Southport for the promotion and encouragement of new business and industrial development in the City of Southport and the County of Brunswick. Such amount shall supplement and not supplant the amount usually and normally budgeted by the city for such purpose. (e) Five per cent -5% to the City of Southport for public recreation and youth development facilities including the purchase of equipment and the operation of and maintenance of such facilities. Such amount shall supplement and not supplant the amount usually and normally budgeted by the city for such purposes. 739 (f) Five per cent -5% to the J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital for the maintenance and operation of said hospital, including the purchase of such needed hospital equipment as may be determined by the board of trustees. (g) Forty-five per cent -45% to the City of Southport for the public safety, public health, public sanitation, public welfare, public buildings and equipment, and for any other lawful purposes. Such amount shall supplement and not supplant the amount or amounts usually and normally budgeted by said city for such purposes.