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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
755
Carroll County - Alcoholic Beverages
(Sales to Minors and Intoxicated Persons)
FOR the purpose of providing that a licensee in Carroll
County must follow a certain standard or procedure to
establish that a person buying alcoholic beverages is
of age under the provisions of this article in order to
avoid responsibility for selling alcoholic beverages to
certain minors.
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages
Section 118(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages
Section 118(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1978 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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
118.
(a) A licensee under the provisions of this article,
or any of his employees, may not sell or furnish any
alcoholic beverages at any time to a minor under 21, except
that the age is 18 for beer and light wine, either for his
own use or for the use of any other person, or to any person
who, at the time of the sale, or delivery, is visibly under
the influence of any alcoholic beverage. Any licensee or
any of his employees who is charged with a violation of this
subsection shall receive a summons for his appearance in
court on a certain day to answer the charges placed against
him. The person charged may not be required to post bail
bond pending trial in any court of this State. Any person
violating any of the provisions of this subsection is guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, suffers the penalties
provided by § 200 of this article. However, any person
charged with selling or furnishing any alcoholic beverages
to a minor under 21, except that the age is 18 for beer and
light wine, may not be found guilty of a violation of this
subsection, if the person establishes to the satisfaction of
the jury or the court sitting as a jury, that he used due
caution to establish that the minor under 21, or 18 where
beer or light wine is sold or furnished, was not, in fact a
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