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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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WHEREAS, Many local governments are potentially liable to
suits under the federal antitrust laws in areas that involve
valid public policies designed to protect public health and
safety, the natural environment, the public fiscal situation, and
other valid public areas not always consistent with free
competition; and
WHEREAS, The Governor's Task Force on Local Government
Antitrust Liability has conducted an examination of principal
areas of local government activities potentially exposed to
antitrust liability, and has discussed the rationale of various
categories of local government activities potentially
inconsistent with competition; and
WHEREAS, The General Assembly of Maryland after reviewing
the final report of the Task Force and its findings with respect
to particular areas of local government activities and after
public hearings on the Task Force recommendations, find that it
is in the public interest with respect to certain such areas that
the power of local governments to supplant displace or limit
competition or both be confirmed in the light of the rationale
for such regulations described in the report of the Task Force
and its public hearings; and
WHEREAS, It is the purpose of the General Assembly not to
grant local governments powers in any substantive areas not
otherwise granted them under existing law, and not to restrict
local governments from executing powers granted them by existing
law, but to confirm existing powers of local governments to
supplant displace or limit competition with respect to the
subjects dealt with herein; now, therefore,
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages
1.
(A) (1) It is hereby declared as the policy of the State
that it is necessary to regulate and control the manufacture,
sale, distribution, transportation and storage of alcoholic
beverages within this State and the transportation and
distribution of alcoholic beverages into and out of this State to
obtain respect and obedience to law and to foster and promote
temperance.
(2) It is hereby declared to be the legislative
intent that such policy will be carried out in the best public
interest by empowering the Comptroller of the Treasury, the State
Appeal Board, the various local boards of license commissioners
and liquor control boards, all enforcement officers and the
judges and clerks of the various courts of this State with
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