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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 617

"restaurant"; providing for the creation of certain
alcoholic beverage licenses with certain hours, fees
and conditions; eliminating a certain fee; allowing
Sunday sales for certain holders of restaurants and
club licenses under certain conditions; to eliminate

certain conditions in certain Sunday licenses;

providing for certain changes in the dispensary
sales; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 2(c) and (p), 13(g—1), 18(o), 19 (l-1)(3),

20(m-2)(4), [[21(1)]] 90(b), 105A [[and],

105B and 118(e)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 2B — Alcoholic Beverages

Section 18(n-1), [[21(h-1)]] 40(c-1), 41(k), 41(1)

and 162(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 2(c) and (p), 13(g-1), 18(o),
19(1-1) (3), 20(m-2)(4), [[21(l)]] 90(b), 105A [[and]],
105B and 118(e) of Article 2B — Alcoholic Beverages, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replacement Volume
and 1975 Supplement) be and they are hereby repealed and
reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

2.

For the purposes of this article and unless
otherwise required by the context:

(c) "Light wine" means any naturally fermented wine
containing not in excess of [fourteen per cent. (14%)] 14
PERCENT of alcohol by volume. HOWEVER, IN WICOMICO
COUNTY LIGHT WINE MEANS ANY FERMENTED BEVERAGE OF 22
PERCENT OF ALCOHOL BY VOLUME.

(p) "Restaurant" means an establishment for the
accommodation of the public equipped with a dining room
with facilities for preparing and serving regular meals,
wherein the average daily receipts from the sale of foods
exceed the average daily receipts from the sale of
alcoholic beverages [,provided that]. HOWEVER the board
of license commissioners, in any county having [such a]
THIS board or in Baltimore City, may by rule or
regulation prescribe a different standard as to what