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licenses that may be issued in Prince George's County;
authorizing the Board of License Commissioners to adopt
certain rules; permitting the Board of Licenses to permit
certain entities to hold a certain number of alcoholic
beverage licenses; restating certain provisions of the law;
and generally relating to alcoholic beverages licenses in
Prince George's County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 19(s)(3) and 53(a); (c), and (e)

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

19.

(s) In Prince George's County, (3) (i) There is, in
addition to the classes provided for, a special Class B license
known as Class BH, which shall be issued only to hotels.

(ii) In this section "hotel" means an
establishment recognized as a hotel for the accommodation of the
public providing services ordinarily found in hotels and equipped
with not less than [100] 45 bedrooms, [a ballroom with not less
than 2,000 square feet,] a lobby with registration and mail desk
and seating facilities and a dining room with facilities for
preparing and serving regular meals, where the average daily
receipts from the hire of rooms and the sale of food exceeds the
average daily receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages. [The
hotel building shall consist of not less than three floors not
including floors below the street or ground level.] THE CAPITAL
INVESTMENT IN THE FACILITY, INCLUDING THE BUILDING OR BUILDINGS
AND ALL FIXTURES AND SYSTEMS CONTAINED THEREIN AND COMPONENTS
THEREOF, PARKING COMPOUND, SWIMMING POOL AND OTHER RECREATIONAL
AREA, LANDSCAPING, SITE PREPARATION AND IMPROVEMENTS AND
INFRASTRUCTURE, ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURAL AND OTHER SIMILAR
COSTS BUT EXCLUDING THE COST OF LAND FURNISHINGS AND REMOVABLE
EQUIPMENT AND PERSONAL PROPERTY, MAY NOT BE LESS THAN $30,000 PER
BEDROOM.

(iii) The annual license fee is [$1,440]
$2,000.

(iv) These licenses to be subject to all other
provisions pertaining to beer, wine and liquor licenses Class B,
in force and effect in Prince George's County, except that any
restrictions against the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday
appearing in § 103 and elsewhere in this article do not apply;