HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B -- Alcoholic Beverages

Section 63(l)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

21.

(f-2)(1) In Garrett County there is a special Class D
license. This license may not be issued to any grocery
store having a primary business of selling food at retail to
the general public for off-premises consumption. The annual
fee for this license is $800 plus 10 percent of the gross

purchase price of all liquor and wine purchased by the
licensee from a Garrett County liquor dispensary or any
licensed wholesale supplier fin the immediate preceding
calendar year]. The annual fee for this license may not be
less than $1,250. The holder of this license may keep for
sale and sell all alcoholic beverages at retail at the place
therein described, for consumption on the premises or
elsewhere. The license entitles the holder to buy liquor,
wine and beer from a Garrett County liquor dispensary or any
licensed wholesale supplier. The purchases made by the
holder of this license are not subject to any percentage
charges that might be imposed from time to time by the
Garrett County liquor control board on liquor and wines
purchased and sold by other licensees.

(2) THE NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF
PARAGRAPH (2) OF SECTION 63(L) OF THIS ARTICLE, THE HOLDER
OF A SPECIAL CLASS D LICENSE SHALL PAY THE GARRETT COUNTY
LIQUOR DISPENSARY THE 10 PERCENT SURCHARGE ON THE GROSS
PURCHASE PRICE OF THE LIQUOR AND WINE PURCHASED AT THE
DISPENSARY AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE.

63.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the
clerk shall remit all license fees collected by him, less a
fee of $2 for the issuance of each license, to the board of
county commissioners for the county, or to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, as the case may be; and the board
of county commissioners or Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall use the portion of the receipts as may be
necessary to pay refunds as hereinafter provided, and devote