HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Section 175(a) and 177

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

175.

(a) The decision of the board of license commissioners
for Baltimore City and the respective counties and of the
State Appeal Board in every county not having a local board
(except in the counties of Dorchester [,] and Somerset [and
Wicomico], where the decision of the State Appeal Board
shall be final}, and of the mayor and aldermen of the City
of Annapolis, in approving, suspending, revoking and
restricting, or refusing to approve, suspend, revoke or
restrict any license, or licensee, shall be subject to
appeal in the following manner:

177.

(a) In the jurisdictions in which this section is
applicable, within ten days from the date of the decision of
the board of license commissioners and upon full payment of
all the costs as hereinbefore in this subtitle provided, the
decision of the boards of license commissioners in
approving, suspending, revoking or restricting or refusing
to approve, suspend, revoke or restrict any license, shall
be subject to appeal to the State Appeal Board, by the
applicant for any license, the licensee, or not less than
ten citizens, voters and real estate owners, residing in the
precinct or voting district in which the place of business
is located or proposed to be located. Upon the filing of
any such appeal, all papers and and testimony produced
before the board of license commissioners shall be forwarded
to the State Appeal Board within thirty days thereof upon
the payment by the appellant or appellants, of all costs
incident to the hearing before the board of license
commissioners. Every such appeal shall be heard by all the
State Appeal Board de novo; but said Appeal Board shall
consider all the papers and testimony produced before the
said boards. The noting of an appeal and payment of said
costs shall stay the order of the board pending the
determination of the appeal. It shall be the duty of the
State Appeal Board to hear and determine all such appeals
within thirty days from the date of the receipt of the
papers and testimony from the board originally hearing the
application, complaint or charges, and if the decision
appealed from is reversed, the costs paid by the appellants
shall be recoverable by the appellants from the appellees,
in a civil action, and failure of the Appeal Board to
determine the appeal within a period of thirty days, after