1448

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 351

for alcoholic beverages in Prince George's County; and
clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B — Alcoholic Beverages

Section 60 (a) and (g) (i)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 2B — Alcoholic Beverages

60.

(a) Before the board of license commissioners for
Baltimore City or any county [shall] approve any license,
the [said] board shall cause a notice of such application to
be published two times in two successive weeks, in three
newspapers of general circulation in Baltimore City, if the
applicant proposes to do business in [said] THE city, and if
the applicant proposes to do business in any of the
counties, in the two newspapers of general circulation in
[said] THE county where two newspapers are published, and if
not, then in one newspaper having a general circulation in
[said] THE county[; the said], THE notice shall specify the
name of the applicant, the kind of license applied for,
[and] the location of the place of business proposed to be
licensed, and the time and place fixed by the board for
hearing upon the application [which], THE HEARING shall be
not less than seven, nor more than [thirty] 30 days after
the last publication. At the time fixed by the notice for
hearing upon the application or upon any postponement of
such time, any person shall be heard on either side of the
question. If the board of license commissioners for [said]
THE city or any county determines that the granting of the
license is not necessary for the accommodation of the public
or that the applicant is not a fit person to receive the
license applied for, or has made a material false statement
in his application, or has practiced fraud in connection
with [said] THE application, or that the operation of the
business, if the license is granted, will unduly disturb the
peace of the residents of the neighborhood in which the
place of business is to be located, or that there are other
reasons, in the discretion of the board, why the license
should not be issued, then the application shall be
disapproved and the license applied for shall be refused.
If no such findings are made by the board, then the
application shall be approved and the [said] board shall
issue its certificate of approval for presentation to the
clerk of the court of the county in which the place of
business is to be located, or to the clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas in Baltimore City, as the case may be[, and the
said]. THE clerk shall issue the license applied for upon