Art. 17. - Regulating sale of wine within town limits.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sanford is hereby authorized and empowered to regulate the sale of the beverage defined and classified in the General State Revenue and Alcoholic Control laws as "Wine" and "Fortified Wine."

Sec. 2. That said authority to regulate shall embrace the power to restrict the issuance or renewal of license, the place where, and between what hours wine may be sold, to pass upon the character of any applicant for license, the kind of license to be issued, if any, and to generally prescribe by ordinance all matters and things dealing with the sale of wine within the corporate limits of the Town of Sanford.

Sec. 3. No State or county license shall be granted or renewed to any applicant for license doing business within the corporate limits of the Town of Sanford until license has been issued to said applicant by the Town of Sanford.

Sec. 3½. The same powers granted the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sanford under Sections one and two, are also hereby granted to the Board of County Commissioners of Lee County with respect to all portions of the county not embraced within incorporated towns, and to the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Jonesboro with respect to the territory embraced within the corporate limits of said Town of Jonesboro.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

Ratified this the 20th day of March, 1945.

(Session Laws of 1945, chapter 963)