HARRY HUGHES, Governor

739

101.

(a) In Kent County, notwithstanding any other
provision of this subtitle, it is unlawful for any person to
sell or for any retail dealer to give alcoholic beverages
between the hours of midnight on Saturday and 6:00 a.m. on
Monday, except as to (1) Class C, beer, wine and liquor
license (on-sale) club under which it is lawful to keep for
sale and sell [in Kent County,] for consumption on the
licensed premises alcoholic beverages on Sunday between the
hours of [1:00 p.m.] 12 NOON and midnight; (2) Class A, beer
and wine license under which it is lawful to sell between
9:00 a.m. Sunday and 2:00 a.m. the following day; [and]
(3) Class D, beer and wine license under which it is lawful
to keep for sale and sell [in Kent County] for consumption
on the licensed premises alcoholic beverages on Sunday
between the hours of 9:00 o'clock a.m. and 2:00 o'clock
a.m. the following day; and [(3)] (4) Class A, B, and D
beer, wine, and liquor license under which it is lawful to
sell beer and light wine only, for consumption off the
licensed premises, on Sunday between 9 a.m. and 2 a.m. the
following day. [Also on] ON Sunday between the hours of
1:00 p.m. and midnight, bona fide restaurants holding a
Class B beer, wine and liquor license are permitted to serve
alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises only as
a supplement to meals (which requires that the total
alcoholic beverage bill cannot exceed the total price of the
meal) and only when seated at a table (and not from a bar or
bar stools). The word "restaurant" when applied to Kent
County, means a business establishment for the accommodation
of the public, fully equipped with a proper and adequate
dining room and with sufficient facilities for preparing and
serving meals, which has been approved by the board of
license commissioners of Kent County, wherein the average
daily receipts from the sale of food comprise at least 60
percent of the average daily receipts of the business.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 1, 1979.

CHAPTER 178

(House Bill 1005)

AN ACT concerning

Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties -
Orphans' Court Judges' Pensions

FOR the purpose of limiting certain pension benefits for the
judges of the orphans' court in Somerset, Wicomico, and