BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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BY adding to

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 164(e)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

159.

(c) (1) The roe libers of the respective boards shall
be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of
the Senate. [However, in]

(2)    IN Somerset County [they] BOARD MEMBERS
shall be appointed by the Governor.

(3)    In Harford County [they] BOARD MEMBERS
shall be appointed by the county executive with the advice
and consent of the County Council.

(4)    In Garrett County, the members of the board
shall be appointed by the Governor. He shall appoint two
members of the board who are members of that political party
which has elected a majority of the members of the Board of
County Commissioners and one member of the board from that
political party other than the one electing a majority of
the Board of County Commissioners, The appointments shall
be confirmed by the House of Delegates if there is no
resident Senator elected from the county.

(5)    In Kent County the County Commissioners
shall be ex officio members of the liquor control board.

(6)    In Garrett and Harford counties the board
shall also be known as the board of license commissioners of
these respective counties, upon which shall be devolved all
the duties and rights given elsewhere in this article.

(7)    In Montgomery County, the director of the
department of liquor control shall be appointed and removed
by the county executive with the approval of the County
Council. THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LIQUOR CONTROL
SERVES AT THE PLEASURE OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE. [In
Montgomery County there shall be] THERE IS also an advisory
board which consists of five members who shall be appointed
and removed by the county executive with the approval of the
County Council. All members [are] SHALL BE residents of
Montgomery County, and of the five members, only one shall
be a bona fide holder of either a Class B or C beer, wine