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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 144

(i) above.

(iii) Encouragement of or permitting any
person on the licensed premises to touch, caress or fondle
the breasts, buttocks, anus or genitals of any other person.

118.

(a—1) A licensee under the provisions of this article,
or any of his employees, in Worcester County, may not sell
or furnish any alcoholic beverages other than beer or light
wine at any time to a person under 21 years of age, or beer
and light wine to any person under 18 years of age, either
for his own use or for the use of any other person, or to
any person who at the time of the sale, or delivery, is
visibly under the influence of alcoholic beverages. Any
licensee or employee of a licensee who is charged with a
violation of this offense may be proceeded against in
Worcester County either upon a charging document duly issued
by the District Court for Worcester County or by an
indictment duly returned by the grand jury of that county.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this
subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
shall suffer the penalties provided by § 200 of this
article. However, any person charged with selling or
furnishing alcoholic beverages to an underaged person may
not be found guilty of a violation of this subsection if the
person establishes TO the satisfaction of the jury or court
sitting as a jury that he used due caution to establish that
the person was not, in fact underaged. This subsection
applies solely to Worcester County and stands in place and
stead of subsection 118 (a) of this article as the
subsection applies generally to the counties of this State-

150.

(a-1) In Cecil County, the Board of County
Commissioners shall appoint three other persons, all of whom
are to be of high moral character and possess a sound
reputation for integrity, to constitute the board of license
commissioners for the [county The] COUNTY. THE members of
the board shall designate their own [chairman The] CHAIRMAN.
THE first members of the board shall be appointed for
three-, four— and five-year terms, respectively, and their
successors for terms of five years each. The board of
license commissioners shall meet at least once a month. The
annual salary of the chairman is $900 and the annual salary
of the other commissioners is $750. Each shall receive
necessary expenses in connection with his duties to be paid
by the Commissioners.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved April 11, 1978.