1935 public laws – Ch.493 Sec.21
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CHAPTER 493 AN ACT TO EXEMPT PASQUOTANK COUNTY FROM THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE EIGHT OF CHAPTER SIXTY- SIX, VOLUME THREE, OF THE CONSOLIDATED STAT- UTES, KNOWN AS THE TURLINGTON ACT, AND TO SET UP AN ALCOHOLIC CONTROL BOARD FOR THE COUNTY OF PASQUOTANK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
All houses, boathouses, buildings, tents, club, fraternity and lodge rooms, boats and places of every description, including drug stores, where alcoholic beverages are manufactured, sold, dispensed, or used contrary to law by any scheme or device whatever, shall be held, taken, and deemed common nuisances. Any person who shall maintain, or who shall aid or abet or knowingly be associated with others in maintaining, such common nuisance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, and judgment shall be given that such house, building, tent, boathouse, car, or other place, or any room or part thereof, be closed up, but the court may upon the owner giving bond in the penalty of not less than five hundred dollars, and with security to be approved by the court, conditioned that the premises shall not be used for unlawful purposes, or in violation of the provisions of this act for a period of five years, turn the same over to its owner, lessee, or person in possession.