HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1313
CHAPTER 642.
(House Bill 815)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3,
Sub-section 5, sub-title "Additional License Fees and Taxes
by Cities and Towns Prohibited"; of Article 2B of the Code
of Public Laws of Maryland, title "Alcoholic Beverages", as
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, by Chapter 476
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, Regular
Session of 1937, to provide that additional license fees and
taxes by Cities and Towns are prohibited; to provide that
holders of beer licenses, Classes A, B, and C, and beer and
light wine licenses, Classes A, B, C and D shall not sell any
alcoholic beverages, except that purchased from the Liquor
Control Board of Montgomery County; and providing that
Class F Licenses shall not be deemed as repealed by any local
Act hereafter passed unless expressly refererd to and ex-
pressly repealed in terms.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 3, sub-section 5 of Article 2B of the Code
of Public Laws of Maryland, title "Alcoholic. Beverages", sub-
title "Additional License Fees and Taxes by Cities and Towns
Prohibited", as repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 476 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, Regular Session of
1937, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

3. (5) Additional License Fees and Taxes by Cities and
Towns Prohibited. No city or town shall be permitted to im-
pose any additional license fees or taxes other than the usual
property tax, upon alcoholic beverages, or upon the exercise of
the privileges conferred by the licenses issued under the pro-
visions of this Act.

In Montgomery County the holders of beer licenses Classes
A, B, C and beer and light wine licenses Classes A, B, C, and
D, shall not be authorized to sell any alcoholic beverages, ex-
cept those purchased from the Board of Liquor Control for
Montgomery County, as hereinafter provided.

The provisions of this Act with respect to Class F licenses
shall not be deemed as repealed by any local Act hereafter
passed unless expressly referred to and expressly repealed in
terms.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having

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