224 ARTICLE 2B

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 2, sec. 1. 1937, ch. 411, sec. 1.

1. (Definitions. ) For the purposes of this Article and unless otherwise
required by the context:

(a) "Alcoholic beverage" means alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin,
cordial, beer, ale, porter, stout, wine, cider and any other spirituous,
vinous, malt or fermented liquor, liquid, or compound, by whatever name
called, containing one-half of one per centum or more of alcohol by volume,
which is fit for beverage purposes.

(b) "Beer" means any brewed alcoholic beverage, and includes ale,
porter and stout.

(c) "Light wine" means any naturally fermented wine containing not
in excess of fourteen per cent. (14%) of alcohol by volume.

(d) "Wine" means any fermented beverage, including light wines, and
wines the alcoholic content of which has been fortified by the addition of
alcohol, spirits or other ingredients.

(d-1) The words "sparkling wine" shall mean champagne or any arti-
ficially carbonated wine.

(e) "Person" means a natural person, an association, a partnership or
a corporation.

(f) "Manufacturer" means a person operating a plant within this State
for distilling, rectifying, blending, brewing, fermenting or bottling any
alcoholic beverage.

(g) "Wholesaler" means a person who purchases or imports any alco-
holic beverage for sale to wholesale or retail dealers only, and includes a
County Liquor Control Board.

(h) "Retail dealer" means a person who deals in or sells any alcoholic
beverage to any person other than a license holder, and includes a county
dispensary.

(i) "License holder" or "Licensee" means the holder of any license,
issued under the provisions of this Article or of any other law of this State,
and includes a County Liquor Control Board and a county dispensary.

(j) "Importer" means a person importing any alcoholic beverage.

(k) "Import" means to transport or ship, or to order or arrange for the
transportation or shipment, of alcoholic beverages into this State from
any other State, district, territory or country.

(1) "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the Treasury of the State
of Maryland.

(m) "Club" means an association or corporation which is organized
and operated exclusively for educational, social, fraternal, patriotic, politi-
cal or athletic purposes and not for profit.

(n) "Hotel" means an establishment for the accommodation of the pub-
lic equipped with not less than ten bedrooms and a dining room with
facilities for preparing and serving regular meals, wherein the average
daily receipts from the hire of rooms and the sale of foods exceed the
average daily receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages, provided that
the Board of License Commissioners, in any county having such a Board or
in Baltimore City, may by rule or regulation prescribe a different stand-
ard as to what shall constitute a hotel.

(o) "Restaurant" means an establishment for the accommodation of
the public equipped with a dining room with facilities for preparing and
serving regular meals, wherein the average daily receipts from the sale of
foods exceed the average daily receipts from the sale of alcoholic bever-