198                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 188

of the laws of Maryland 1959, being Subsection (a) and Subsection
(c) of Section 72-89, Montgomery County Code 1960, are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and all to read as follows:

82.

(a) Licenses not to be issued.—No Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Montgomery County or of Prince George's County, no adminis-
trative official, no licensing body or board, and no person whatever
shall issue a license or permit for any commercial or industrial
purpose or for the conducting of any commercial or industrial
enterprise or business whatsoever in a residential zone, that is, in
any district designated on the zone maps as residential within the
Regional District. Nothing contained in this subsection shall be
deemed to prohibit the issuance of any license or permit for land
or buildings for which special exceptions to the provisions of the
zoning regulations have been or may be lawfully granted.

(c) Alcoholic Beverage Licenses.—In addition, the Board of
License Commissioners of Montgomery County, within its discre-
tion, may issue and renew [such] alcoholic beverage licenses AS
HAVE BEEN HERETOFORE ISSUED BY SAID BOARD [as
were lawfully renewed by the Liquor Control Board in 1938] for
premises on which lawful non-conforming uses exists EXIST.; PRO-
VIDED THAT NO LICENSE SHALL BE ISSUED WHICH IS
LESS RESTRICTIVE THAN ANY WHICH HAS BEEN ISSUED
FOR SUCH PREMISES HERETOFORE, [either as restaurants,
grocery stores, or roadside stands have continuously existed since
1928.]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety and
for the promotion of the general welfare of the public, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General As-
sembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved March 30, 1965.

CHAPTER 188
(Senate Bill 488)

AN ACT to repeal Section 200 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Howard County (1957 Edition, being Article 14 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Howard County", sub-title
"Sheriff", as last amended by Chapter 585 of the Acts of 1961, and
to enact new Section 200 in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the
section repealed, to increase the minimum salary authorized to be
paid to the warden of the Howard County Jail, to provide for the
appointment of guards for the jail, the manner of determining the
number thereof and the compensation to be paid them and relat-
ing generally to the warden and guards of the Howard County Jail.