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1967 Supplement), title "Alcoholic Beverages," subtitle "General
Provisions on Issue of Licenses," modifying a restriction on the
authority of the Montgomery County Board of License Commis-
sioners to grant alcoholic beverage licenses to establishments more
than three hundred feet of certain specified facilities.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 52B of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition and 1967 Supplement), title "Alcoholic Beverages,"
subtitle "General Provisions on Issue of Licenses," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

52B.

In Montgomery County, the board of license commissioners shall
not approve any license to sell alcoholic beverages within seven
hundred and fifty feet of any secondary or elementary school, church,
other places of worship, public library or youth center sponsored or
conducted by any governmental agency. Measurement of the required
distance shall be made from the nearest point of the building of the
proposed establishment for which said license is requested to the
nearest point of the building of the school, church, or other place of
worship, public library or youth center. The board of license com-
missioners may within their discretion and by unanimous action
of the board approve the application for any license to sell alcoholic
beverages more than three hundred feet from any elementary or
secondary school, church, other place of worship, public library, or
youth center sponsored or conducted by any governmental agency
provided that the land upon which the building is situated in which
[the licensee would operate is classified in [the least restrictive com-
mercial zone] a commercial or industrial zone under the applicable
zoning ordinance and is adjacent and/or contiguous to other land
which is similarly classified under said zoning ordinance. Nothing
in this section shall apply to or affect or prohibit, in any manner,
the renewal or transfer of any license of any establishment where
subsequent to the original granting of said license a school, church,
other place of worship, public library or youth center was erected
within seven hundred and fifty feet of said establishment, or where
the said license is in effect for said establishment on June 1, 1965.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 633
(House Bill 67)

AN ACT to repeal and reenact, with amendments, Section 1 of
Chapter 180 of the Laws of Maryland 1961, the same also being
Section 2-127 of the Montgomery County Code (1965 Edi-
tion), titled "Administration," subtitled "Division 4. Taxation
Generally," subheading "Real property transfer tax," to amend