HARRY HUGHES, Governor

2287

license for use in a restaurant establishment that is
located on certain land in or near a central business
district zone or the Takoma Park Transit Station Development
Area-gene Impact Area, if certain conditions are satisfied;
repealing certain obsolete language; defining a certain
term; clarifying language; and generally relating to the
approval of alcoholic beverages licenses for restaurants
that are located in or within a certain distance from a CBD
Zone zone or the Takoma Park Transit Station Development
Area Zone Impact Area in Montgomery County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 52B

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

52B.

(A) In Montgomery County, the board of license
commissioners [shall not] MAY NOT approve any license to sell
alcoholic beverages within [seven hundred and fifty] 750 feet of
any secondary or elementary school, church, other places of
worship, public library or youth center sponsored or conducted by
any governmental agency. Measurement of the required distance
shall be made from the nearest point of the building of the
proposed establishment for which [said] THE license is requested
to the nearest point of the building of the school, church, or
other place of worship, public library or youth center. The
board of license commissioners may within their discretion and by
unanimous action of the board approve the application for any
license to sell alcoholic beverages more than [three hundred] 300
feet from any elementary or secondary school, church, other place
of worship, public library, or youth center sponsored or
conducted by any governmental agency provided that the land upon
which the building is situated in which the licensee would
operate is classified in a commercial or industrial zone under
the applicable zoning ordinance and is adjacent and/or contiguous
to other land which is similarly classified under said zoning
ordinance. Nothing in this section shall apply to or affect or
prohibit, in any manner, the renewal, transfer, or reissuance of
a prior license of any license of any establishment where
subsequent to the original granting of said license a school,
church, other place of worship, public library or youth center
was erected within [seven hundred and fifty] 750 feet of [said]
THE establishment[, or where the said license is in effect for
said establishment on June 1, 1965]. For the purposes of this
section, reissuance shall be limited to a new license for the