SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        199

land (1967 Supplement), title "Alcoholic Beverages," subtitle "Pro-
cedure for Issue of Licenses," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

60.

(a) General procedure.—Before the board of license commission-
ers for Baltimore City or any county shall approve any license, the
said board shall cause a notice of such application to be published
two times in two successive weeks, in three newspapers of general
circulation in Baltimore City, if the applicant proposes to do business
in said city, and if the applicant proposes to do business in any
of the counties, in the two newspapers of general circulation in said
county where two newspapers are published, and if not, then in
one newspaper having a general circulation in said county; the said
notice shall specify the name of the applicant, the kind of license
applied for, and the location of the place of business proposed to
be licensed, and the time and place fixed by the board for hearing
upon the application which shall be not less than seven, nor more
than thirty days after the last publication. At the time fixed by
the notice for hearing upon the application or upon any postpone-
ment of such time, any person shall be heard on either side of the
question. If the board of license commissioners for said city or
any county determines that the granting of the license is not neces-
sary for the accommodation of the public or that the applicant is
not a fit person to receive the license applied for, or has made a
material false statement in his application, or has practiced fraud
in connection with said application, 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 there are other reasons, in the discretion
of the board, why the license should not be issued, then the appli-
cation shall be disapproved and the license applied for shall be re-
fused. If no such finds (findings) are made by the board, then the
application shall be approved and the said board shall issue its
certificate of approval for presentation to the clerk of the court of
the county in which the place of business is to be located, or to
the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Baltimore City, as the
case may be, and the said clerk shall issue the license applied for
upon presentation of said certificate, and the payment of the fee
required, except that, in Prince George's County, such certificate
of approval shall not be presented to nor payment made to the
clerk of the court, rather, if no such findings are made by the board,
then the application shall be approved and the said board shall issue
the license applied for, after payment of the required fee to the
treasurer of Prince George's County, provided that said board shall
maintain a record of licenses issued. In addition, in Baltimore City,
no such license shall be issued by the clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas unless and until there is presented to him a certificate, issued
by the Bureau of Assessments, showing that there are no unpaid
taxes on the merchandise, fixtures and stock of the applicant due
to the City of Baltimore or the State of Maryland.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That new subsection (j) be
and it is hereby added to Section 68 of Article 2B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1967 Supplement), title "Alcoholic Beverages,"
subtitle "Renewal of Licenses," to read as follows: