350                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      CH. 298]

CHAPTER 298
(House Bill 771)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 165(c)
of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition
and 1967 Cumulative Supplement), title "Alcoholic Beverages,"
subtitle "County Liquor Control Boards and Dispensaries," to
change the restrictions on advertising of alcoholic beverages by
the liquor control board of Harford County at county liquor dis-
pensaries, and to correct an error therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 165(c) of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition and 1967 Cumulative Supplement), title "Alco-
holic Beverages," subtitle "County Liquor Control Boards and Dis-
pensaries," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

165.

(c) The liquor control board shall keep separate accounts of the
operations conducted at each dispensary which shall show the gross
revenue of each dispensary and also the net revenue derived there-
from. After setting aside at each dispensary the necessary reserve
for the proper conduct thereof, the said board shall, as often as it
may deem to the best interests of the county, town and city, and
at least semiannually make a distribution of the net proceeds as
follows: To the County Commissioners of Harford County, fifty per
cent (50%) of the net proceeds derived from each of said liquor
dispensaries; to the towns of Aberdeen and Bel Air, one half of
the net proceeds from the liquor dispensaries located therein; and
to the city of Havre de Grace, one half of the net proceeds from the
liquor dispensary located therein; to be used by said county, town
and city for debt service, operating expenses or for whatever other
purposes may be deemed best. [No advertising of said dispensaries,
or of liquors sold therein, shall be done by said liquor control board,
in any manner in Harford County.] Provided, however, that the
liquor control board shall pay over to the Board of County Commis-
sioners of Harford County all of the net proceeds derived from
the liquor dispensary in the first election district.

The board of county [commissioner] commissioners shall pay one
half of the profits so received from the first district dispensary to
the Harford County metropolitan commission for the construction,
maintenance, or support of public sanitary facilities in the first elec-
tion district under and pursuant to the Harford County sanitary
district law.

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

Approved April 10, 1968.