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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 715

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 53 (5)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

53.

(5) (A) In Prince George's County, [no] A person,
franchiser, franchisee, chain store operation, partnership,
firm or corporation may NOT have any interest in more than
one license, whether held or controlled by direct or
indirect ownership, by franchise operation, by chain store
operation, by stock ownership, interlocking directors or
interlocking stock ownership, or in any other manner,
directly or indirectly[, it being]. IT IS the intention of
this [section] SUBSECTION to prohibit any such persons,
franchiser, franchisee, chain store operation, firm,
partnership or corporation from having any interest,
directly or indirectly, in more than one license.

(B)    This [section shall] SUBSECTION DOES not
apply to licenses issued under the provisions of § 19 (i)
(2) or § 19 (i) (5) or § 25 of this article or to club
licenses.

(C)    THE BOARD OF LICENSE COMMISSIONERS MAY
PERMIT AN INDIVIDUAL, PARTNERSHIP, OR CORPORATION TO HAVE AS
MANY BH LICENSES AS IT CONSIDERS NECESSARY NOT MORE THAN TWO
BH LICENSES.

(D)    If the board of license commissioners for
Prince George's County, after conducting a hearing,
determines that any person, franchiser, franchisee, chain
store operation, partnership, firm or corporation has any
interest in more than one license issued in contravention
with the provisions above, the board shall revoke any
license theretofore issued to a licensee where conflict of
interest is determined.

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

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 716
(House Bill 1556)