3218

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 705

(h-2) (1) In Harford County, the liquor board may issue a 6
day, Monday through Saturday, "club and organization license"
covering "on-sales" of beer, wine and liquor to the members and
the guests of these clubs and organizations.

(5) The license shall be issued only [to] FOR the
following clubs and organizations:

(i) A bona fide nationally chartered nonprofit
organization or club which has been incorporated for a period of
not fewer than 5 years immediately prior to the filing of the
application, composed solely of members who served in the armed
forces of the United States in any war in which the United States
was engaged, which organization or club operates solely for the
use of its own members and its guests when accompanied by such
members, and meets in a clubhouse principally used for a club,
and is neither directly nor indirectly operated as a public
business;

(ii) Any lodge or chapter of a bona fide
nonprofit and nationally chartered fraternal organization
composed of members duly elected and initiated in accordance with
the rights and customs of such fraternal organizations which is
operating a house or clubhouse for the use of its members, and is
neither directly or indirectly operated as a public business,
provided that any such club or organization has 100 or more bona
fide members paying such dues as required by its national
organization in the year immediately preceding the year in which
such license is issued, and provided that such home or clubhouse
has facilities for preparing and serving food on the premises to
the members and their guests;

(iii) A bona fide yacht or boat club,
regardless of whether the club is operated for profit, owning
real estate in the county and having a dues-paying membership of
not less than 150 persons, not less than 50 of whom own yachts,
boats or other vessels;

(iv) A country club, regardless of whether the
club is operated for profit, which has 75 or more bona fide
members paying dues of not less than $50 per annum per member,
which maintains at the time of the application for license a
regular or championship golf course of 9 holes or more, or, in
lieu of said golf course, a swimming pool at least 20 by 40 feet
in size, and at least 6 tennis courts; [or]

(v) A [racquetball] RACQUET club, regardless
of whether the club is operated for profit, that has 75 or more
bona fide members paying dues of not less than $50 each per year,
which has at the time of application and continues to maintain a
minimum of 6 [racquetball] PLAYING courts, with facilities for
preparing food. No license may be issued if the licensee is
within 300 feet of any existing licensed establishment of any
kind; or