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Ch. 70 MARVIN MANDEL, Governor 129
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 location. The board may grant an additional extension of one year,
expiring 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 seriously engaged in a bona fide
effort to comply with the standards contained herein.
(2) Such a license may be issued to any agricultural association, agricultural fair
association or any other association duly authorized to conduct racing under the
provisions of Article 78B of this Code where restaurant facilities are available or to
duly authorized concessionaires of any such association, or to any organization on
any other day, exclusive of racing days, where the premises and facilities of such
association are used for a limited period of time for legitimate theatrical
productions, social receptions, and any bona fide entertainment conducted by any
club, society or association, or for any bona fide religious, fraternal, civic, war
veterans, hospital or charitable organizations upon payment of a license fee of ten
dollars ($10.00) per day for the period of such license. Notwithstanding the
provisions of § 40 of this article, in the case of such a license, at least one officer
of the corporation or the concessionaire, whichever applies for the license, must be
a resident of the State of Maryland.
(3) In Prince George's County there shall be, in addition to the classes herein
provided, a special Class B license known as Class BH, which shall be issued only
to hotels, and for the purpose of this section "hotel" shall mean an establishment
recognized as a hotel for the accommodation of the public providing services
ordinarily found in hotels, equipped with not less than one hundred bedrooms, a
ballroom with not less than 2,000 square feet, a lobby with registration and mail
desk and seating facilities and a dining room with facilities for preparing and
serving regular meals, wherein the average daily receipts from the hire of rooms
and the sale of food exceeds the average daily receipts from the sale of alcoholic
beverages, said hotel building shall consist of not less than three floors not
including floors below the street or ground level. The annual license fee shall be
twelve hundred and fifty dollars ($1,250.00). Said licenses to be subject to all other
provisions pertaining to beer, wine and liquor licenses Class B, in force and effect
in Prince George's County, except that any restrictions against the sale of alcoholic
beverages on Sunday appearing in § 103 and elsewhere in this article shall not
apply; and provided further that in no event may alcoholic beverages be sold,
served or consumed on the licensed premises on Sunday after two o'clock a.m or
before twelve o'clock noon.
(4) The board of license commissioners may issue to the holders of a beer, wine
and liquor license, Class B, meeting the qualifications specified in (subsection (1) of
this section] PARAGRAPH (1) OF THIS SUBSECTION a special Sunday
"on-sale" permit to allow the holder thereof to keep for sale and to sell at retail
beer, wine and liquor on Sunday for consumption on the licensed premises between
the hours of twelve o'clock noon and two o'clock a.m. the day following; providing
the average daily receipts from the sale of food equals forty percent (40%) of the
total daily receipts from the sale of food and alcoholic beverages in the
establishments where it is proposed to locate such a permit, and such ratio of food
sales to the sale of alcoholic beverages has been maintained for at least six months
prior to the application for such a permit except that in the case of a newly
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