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

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 475

(Senate Bill 540)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore City - Alcoholic Beverages

FOR the purpose of permitting the issuance of a new
alcoholic beverage license in a certain area of
Baltimore City; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B — Alcoholic Beverages

Section 53B

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

53B.

(A)    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].

(B)    THE board of license commissioners of Baltimore
City [shall] MAY 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]

(C)    ONE new license may be issued to the area bounded
on the north by Oliver Street, on the east by Charles
Street, on the south by Mount Royal, and on the west by
Maryland Avenue.

(D) ONE NEW LICENSE MAY BE ISSUED IN THE AREA BOUNDED
BY OLIVER STREET ON THE NORTH, MOUNT ROYAL AVENUE ON THE