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invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of
this Act are hereby declared to be severable.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved May 6, 1963.

CHAPTER 897
(Senate Bill 474)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 12-13 of
the Anne Arundel County Code (1957 Edition, being Article 2 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Anne Arundel
County", sub-title "Chapter 12. Licenses", to transfer the au-
thority vested in the Anne Arundel County Commissioners to
examine and approve applicants for certain amusement and other
licenses and to examine licensed premises in the county to the
Police Department of Anne Arundel County, NEW BOARD OF
AMUSEMENT LICENSE COMMISSIONERS, CREATED
HEREIN, and relating to the exercise and effect of such authority.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 12-13 of the Anne Arundel County Code (1957 Edition,
being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title
"Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Chapter 12. Licenses", be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

12-13.

The [board of county commissioners, or the person or persons
appointed by such such board for this purpose,] Police Department of
Anne Arundel County shall examine all applicants for licenses issued
under the authority of this chapter, and shall examine all places in
which such proposed licensed event or business is to be operated.
[The board of county commissioners, in its discretion, shall have the
power to appoint a person or persons to exercise the authority con-

ferred on the board by this section.] If the [board or person or per-

sons appointed by the board for this purpose find that the] ap-
plicant is not a fit person to receive the license applied for or [that]
the operation of the business, if the license is granted, will unduly
disturb the peace of the residents of the neighborhood in which the
place of business is to be located or [that] the operation of the
proposed business or event will constitute a nuisance, then the ap-
plication shall be disapproved and the license applied for shall be
refused. The approval of all licenses issued under the provisions of
this chapter by the [board of county commissioners or the person or
persons appointed by the board for this purpose,] Police Department
shall be a prerequisite to the issuance or reissuance of any such

license by the clerk of the circuit court of the county. The decision

of the [board of county commissioners or the person or persons ap-
pointed for this purpose] Police Department as to approval or disap-
proval of any application for such a license shall be subject to review

by the circuit court of the county and may be either approved, re-

versed or modified. The circuit court's decision as to approval, re-