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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 20, 1980.

CHAPTER 597

(House Bill 394)

AN ACT concerning

Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages
Interest in More Than One License

FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain persons and business
entities from having an interest in more than one
alcoholic beverages license, except by way of renewal,
in Anne Arundel County; and declaring the intention for
this provision.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 48

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

48.

In the enumerated subdivisions below, a person,
partnership, firm or corporation, except by way of renewal,
may not have an interest in more than one license, whether
held or controlled by direct or indirect ownership, by stock
ownership, interlocking directors or interlocking stock
ownership, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly.
It is the intention of this section to prohibit any person,
firm, partnership or corporation from having any interest,
directly or indirectly, in more than one license.

(1)  Baltimore County — Except that the
provisions of this section do not apply to licenses issued
for premises operated as a motel or motor court having 100
rooms or more.

(2)  Worcester County — Except that the
provisions of this section do not apply to any licenses
issued under § 41 (j) of this article.