Ch. 497                          MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                              1111

ARUNDEL COUNTY. SUCH GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB LICENSE
SHALL BE SUBJECT TO ALL THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE,
EXCEPT THAT ANY RESTRICTIONS AGAINST THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ON SUNDAYS, APPEARING ELSEWHERE IN
HIS ARTICLE, SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY LICENSEE HOLDING
SAID SPECIAL CLASS C (GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB) LICENSE; A
SPECIAL CLASS C (COUNTRY CLUB) LICENSE FOR AN ANNUAL FEE
FOR SUCH LICENSE OF SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS
($625.00) TO BE PAID TO SAID CLERK BEFORE ISSUANCE THEREOF
AFTER APPROVAL OF ISSUANCE OF SUCH LICENSE BY SAID
BOARD, MAY ALSO BE ISSUED IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY TO A
COUNTRY         CLUB         MEETING         THE         AFOREMENTIONED

REQUIREMENTS OTHER THAN THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A
REGULAR OR CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF COURSE OF 9 HOLES OR
MORE; BUT WHICH COUNTRY CLUB INSTEAD SHALL BE REQUIRED
TO HAVE, IN ADDITION TO THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS, NOT LESS
THAN 15 ACRES OF GROUND FOR SAID LICENSED PREMISES AND
USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; HOWEVER, LICENSED CLUBS
IN THIS CATEGORY OF A SPECIAL CLASS C (COUNTRY CLUB)
LICENSE SHALL BE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS APPEARING IN
SECTION 92 OF THIS ARTICLE AS TO SALE OF ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES ON SUNDAY AND FURTHER SAID COUNTRY CLUBS
SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES FOR
CONSUMPTION OFF THEIR PREMISES OR THE GROUNDS OF SUCH
CLUB USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 497
(Senate Bill 1209)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 5-608(b) of Article 93
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title
"Decedents' Estates," subtitle "Opening the Estate," subheading "Small
Estates," changing the amount of the appraised value in which the United
States Coast Guard or the Maryland Department of Chesapeake Bay Affairs
may transfer the certificate of registration to a boat or vessel of a decedent to
the person entitled thereto without any administration of the estate.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 5-608(b) of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title "Decedents' Estates," subtitle
"Opening the Estate," subheading "Small Estates," is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

5-608.

(b) When the only property of a decedent is a boat or vessel, the appraised
value of which does not exceed [$1,500] [[$10,000]] $5,000, the United States
[Collector of Customs] COAST GUARD or the Maryland Department of
Chesapeake Bay Affairs may, upon satisfactory evidence that all of the decedent's