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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 62

holder to keep for sale and sell all alcoholic beverages at
retail at any hotel or restaurant at the place described, for
consumption on the premises or elsewhere, or as provided in the
following subsections. The annual fee for this license is $750,
except as provided, and is payable to the clerk, before any
license is issued, for distribution as provided in this article.

(x) (1) In Wicomico County the annual fee for this license
is $750 for a restaurant and [$1,250] $1,500 for a hotel.

(2)  This license may be issued in Wicomico County to
a bona fide hotel which (i) is an establishment for the
accommodation of the public providing services ordinarily found
in hotels, (ii) is equipped with not fewer than 25 rooms, a lobby
with registration and mail desk and seating facilities and a
dining room which serves full-course meals at least twice daily.
This license in a hotel does not permit sales for consumption off
the premises.

(3)  This license may be issued in Wicomico County to
a restaurant which is a business establishment for the
accommodation of the public, fully equipped with a proper and
adequate dining room with facilities for preparing and serving
regular meals and which has a regular seating capacity at tables
(not including seats at bars or counters) for 75 or more persons
seated comfortably and adequately, allowing 15 square feet per
person, wherein the average daily receipts from the sale of foods
for each month exceeds the average daily receipts from the sale
of alcoholic beverages. In calculating average daily receipts
from the sale of foods, no allocation of food stuff contained in
any mixed drink may be included in average daily receipts from
the sale of food. The seating and square foot requirements
contained herein shall not affect present Class B beer, wine and
liquor licensees. This license requires the sale of alcoholic
beverages for consumption only on the inside of the restaurant
premises.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved April 10, 1984.