14B NCAC 15C .0706      INDUCEMENTS (TIED HOUSE)

Industry members shall not:

(1)           acquire or hold an interest in a license or permit or the premises of a retail permittee;

(2)           acquire an interest in real or personal property owned, occupied, or used by a retail permittee for the retailer's business;

(3)           furnish, give, rent, lend, or sell to a retail permittee equipment, fixtures, signs, supplies, money, services, or things of value except as provided in these Rules;

(4)           pay or credit a retail permittee for advertising, display, or distribution service;

(5)           guarantee a loan or the repayment of a financial obligation of a retail permittee;

(6)           extend credit to a retail permittee, except as provided in these Rules;

(7)           require a retail permittee to take and dispose of a certain quota of alcoholic beverages;

(8)           acquire an interest in a mortgage or deed of trust on the retailer's business or property;

(9)           pay a third party for the display of advertising on signs or scorecards manufactured by a third party for a retailer;

(10)         furnish free warehousing by delaying delivery of alcoholic beverage product or by providing refrigerated vehicles for a retailer; or

(11)         purchase advertising on signs, scoreboards, and programs at ballparks, racetracks, and coliseums from the retail concessionaire, unless the retailer is a city or county, and an exemption has been granted pursuant to G.S. 18B‑1116(b).

History Note:        Authority G.S. 18B-100; 18B‑207;

Eff. January 1, 1982;

Amended Eff. July 1, 1992; May 1, 1984;

Transferred and Recodified from 04 NCAC 02T .0707 Eff. August 1, 2015;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. August 19, 2017;

Readopted Eff. May 1, 2026.