Ch. 837                            MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 1715

been paid.

Provided, further, that the number of licenses which shall be permitted to have
any off-sale privileges referred to herein shall be limited to those licenses having
such permit and facilities at the time of the effective date of this act.

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 during the hours it is regularly
open for business.

It shall have at least the minimum sanitary facilities required for such an
establishment by the regulations of the county health department and shall meet
the minimum health requirements of such rules and regulations. It shall have a
dining area or areas with sufficient tables, chairs and/or booths to comfortably
seat and accommodate patrons.

The establishment shall be equipped with a kitchen having complete 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 whatsoever 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 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