352                               Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 97

APPROVAL BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OF PRINCE
GEORGE'S AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES SHALL BE RE-
QUIRED PRIOR TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANY NEW AD-
MINISTRATION BUILDING OF THE WASHINGTON SUBUR-
BAN SANITARY COMMISSION OR ANY SUBSTANTIAL AD-
DITION TO AN EXISTING ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety 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 Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 97
(Senate Bill 431)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 33 of
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replacement
Volume), title "Licenses," subtitle "Traders," to generally elimi-
nate the restrictions for a liquor license applicable only to women
and to eliminate special contract obligations of women thereunder.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 33 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses," subtitle "Traders," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

33.

When any person, body politic or corporate shall propose to sell
or barter, or dispose of, or offer for sale anything mentioned in
Section 32, except spirituous or fermented liquors, he shall apply to
the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which he proposes to
carry on such selling or bartering, or disposing of goods, wares,
chattels, or merchandise; or if he purposes to carry on such selling
or bartering, or disposing of goods, wares, chattels or merchandise
in the City of Baltimore, to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
for a license therefor; and a license to offer for sale issued by said
clerk of Court of Common Pleas or by the clerk of the circuit court
for any county shall be good and sufficient as a license to offer for
sale in every part of the State; provided that such license shall not
authorize the holder thereof to open or carry on any store or fixed
place of business for such selling or offering for sale in any place
other than in the place of business designated in said license and in
the application therefor, it being intended hereby that a separate
trader's license shall be obtained for each store or fixed place of
business; but no license to trade or to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors shall be issued by any clerk of a court to [a feme covert, or
to] any person under the age of twenty-one years, without the special
order of a judge of said court; and no judges shall give such special