1728                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 801

BE CONSTRUED TO PROHIBIT THE TRANSFER OF SUCH
LICENSE WITHOUT SAID OFF-SALE PRIVILEGE. NOTH-
ING HEREIN SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO LIMIT THE
TRANSFER OF LOCATION OF THE LICENSED PREMISE.
NOTHING HEREIN SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO LIMIT
SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES FOR CONSUMPTION
OFF OF THE LICENSED PREMISE FROM THE MAIN BAR
AND WITHIN THE MAIN PORTION OF THE DINING
ROOM FACILITIES.

For the purpose of this subsection a restaurant shall be defined
as any establishment located in a permanent building with ample
space and accommodations commonly known as a restaurant wherein
hot meals are habitually prepared, sold and served to the public dur-
ing the hours it is regularly opened for business.

It shall have at least the minimum sanitary facilities required for
such an establishment by the regulations of the County Health De-
partment and shall meet the minimum health requirements of such
rules and regulations. It shall have a dining area or areas with suf-
ficient tables, chairs and/or booths to comfortably seat and accom-
modate patrons.

The establishment shall be equipped with a kitchen having com-
plete facilities and utensils for preparing hot and cold meals to the
public.

There shall be employed a sufficient number of cooks, waiters
and/or waitresses to serve the number of patrons provided for in
the dining area or areas.

Each restaurant shall maintain and display a menu advertising
the serving of a variety of hot meals. There shall be on the premises
at all times sufficient food to fill orders made from said menu.

Any interruption of restaurant facilities for any reason whatso-
ever must be reported to the Board promptly.

No drug, candy or confectionery store shall be construed to be a
restaurant.

On and after May 1, 1966, no new application for a beer, wine
and liquor license, Class B shall be granted by the Board, and no
transfer from one location to another location by the same license
holder, and no transfer from one license holder to another at the
same location, or from one license holder to another at a different
location, shall be approved unless the establishment where it is
proposed to locate or transfer the license shall meet the standards
contained herein. As of May 1, 1966, a license holder who was
granted and held his license prior to June 1, 1965, shall be granted
by the board an additional period of two years, expiring as of May
1, 1968, during which to meet the standards contained herein; and
during that two-year period the board shall not refuse, for failure
to meet these standards, an application for the renewal of a license,
a transfer from one license holder to another at the same location,
or a transfer from one license holder to another at a different loca-
tion. The board may grant an additional extension of one year, ex-
piring as of May 1, 1969, as to any such request for a renewal or
transfer, if it finds that as of May 1, 1968, the license holder is
seriousl