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license may be issued within a certain further
defined area.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 2B — Alcoholic Beverages

Section 53B

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1968 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 53B of Article 2B - Alcoholic
Beverages, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 2B — Alcoholic Beverages

53B.

In Baltimore City, within the area bounded by
Twenty—Fifth (25th) Street on the north and Center Street
on the south and Howard Street on the west and Guilford
Avenue on the east, no new licenses for the sale of
alcoholic beverages shall be issued except Class B
licenses and no licenses for the sale of alcoholic
beverages of any class shall be transferred into this
area of Baltimore City, further, the board of license
commissioners of Baltimore City shall not authorize the
issuance of a special amusement license to the holder of
a Class D beer, wine and liquor license in such area of
Baltimore City. EXCEPT THAT ONE NEW LICENSE MAY BE
ISSUED TO THE AREA BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY OLIVER STREET,
ON THE EAST BY CHARLES STREET, ON THE SOOTH BY MOUNT
ROYAL, AND ON THE WEST BY MARYLAND AVENUE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.

CHAPTER 856
(Senate Bill 1120)

AN ACT concerning