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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 224

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages
Section 214 and 215
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1981 Replacement Volume)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

214.

A person may not possess in an open container any
alcoholic beverage, as defined in this article, while:

(1)  On the mall, adjacent parking area, or other
outside area of any combination of privately owned retail
establishments, commonly known as a shopping center, to
which the general public is invited for business purposes,
unless authorized by the owner of the establishment;

(2)  On an adjacent parking area or other outside
area of any other retail establishment, unless authorized by
the owner of the establishment;

(3)  In any parked vehicle located on any of the
places enumerated in this section, unless authorized.

215.

Any person who violates the provisions of this
subheading is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is
subject to a fine not exceeding $100.

216.

This subheading applies only in the following counties:

(1)  Charles County[, and];

(2)  Calvert County; AND

(3)  ST. MARY'S COUNTY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved April 28, 1981.