1084                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 652

title "Alcoholic Beverages", sub-title "Beer and Light Wine
Licenses", relating to and regulating generally the granting and
use of "off-sale" licenses for beer and light wine in Harford County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 13 (f) of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), title "Alcoholic Beverages", sub-title "Beer and
Light Wine Licenses", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, to read as follows:

13 (f) (Harford County) In Harford County the annual license fee
for such license shall be Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) and shall be
granted by the Liquor Control Board of Harford County only to
proprietors of bona fide retail stores selling food, drugs or other
similar commodities as designated by the Liquor Control Board. Such
license will authorize the licensee to sell for consumption off the
premises only, not less than six bottles or cans of brewed beverages
as defined in this Article, and not less than one-fifth of a gallon
of fermented beverages as defined herein. No brewed beverages
shall be authorized to contain more than six per centum of alcohol by
volume and wine and other fermented beverages shall not contain
more than fourteen percentum by volume. The word "premises" for
the purpose of this Section shall be construed to include any building,
parking lot, terrace or grounds which form an integral part of the
licensed premises.

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SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THIS ACT
IS HEREBY DECLARED TO BE AN EMERGENCY MEASURE
AND NECESSARY FOR THE IMMEDIATE PRESERVATION
OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY, AND HAVING BEEN
PASSED BY A YEA AND NAY VOTE SUPPORTED BY THREE-
FIFTHS OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH OF THE TWO
HOUSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE SAME SHALL
TAKE EFFECT FROM THE DAY OF ITS PASSAGE.

Approved April 25, 1955.

CHAPTER 652
(House Bill 381)

AN ACT to add Section 120 (d) to Article 2B of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1951 Edition and 1954 Supplement), title "Alcoholic
Beverages", sub-title "Restrictions Upon Licensees", said new sec-
tion to follow immediately after Section 120 (c) thereof, specifying
the circumstances under which the possession of alcoholic bever-

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CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
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