BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                        2073

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

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 698

(House Bill 1416)

AN ACT concerning

Washington County — Trader's license

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the clerk of the Circuit
Court of Washington County from issuing a trader's
license until the applicant files a certification from

the County Planning Commission or certain zoning

authorities that the proposed location of the business
is properly zoned for that business; generally relating

to duties of certain zoning authorities and

certifications by the County Planning Commission; and
restructuring and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 — Licenses

Section 33

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 56 — Licenses

33.

(A) (1) When any person, body politic or corporate
shall propose to sell or barter, or dispose of, or offer for
sale anything mentioned in § 32, except spirituous or
fermented liquors, he shall apply to the clerk of the
circuit court for the county in which he proposes to carry
on such selling or bartering, or disposing of goods, wares,
chattels, or merchandise; or if he purposes to carry on such
selling or bartering, or disposing of goods, wares, chattels
or merchandise in the City of Baltimore, to the clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for a license [therefor; and].

(2) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (3) [a] A
license to offer for sale issued by said clerk of Court of
Common Pleas or by the clerk of the circuit court for any