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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 18B-121

Claim for relief created for sale to underage person

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Ling v. Jan's Liquors (1985)

Most recently applied in 214 N.C. App. 529 - Green v. FISHING PIERS, INC. (August 2011)

1983, c. 435, s. 37.

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An aggrieved party has a claim for relief for damages against a permittee or local Alcoholic Beverage Control Board if:

(1) The permittee or his agent or employee or the local board or its agent or employee negligently sold or furnished an alcoholic beverage to an underage person; and

(2) The consumption of the alcoholic beverage that was sold or furnished to an underage person caused or contributed to, in whole or in part, an underage driver's being subject to an impairing substance within the meaning of G.S. 20-138.1 at the time of the injury; and

(3) The injury that resulted was proximately caused by the underage driver's negligent operation of a vehicle while so impaired.

Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.