1022                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                                      Ch. 276

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

Article - Transportation

24-301.

(a)  In this subtitle the following words have the meanings
indicated.

(b)  (1) "Established place of business" means any permanent
building or structure from which a permanent business is
conducted during normal business hours throughout the year.

(2) An established place of business does not include
a tent, temporary stand or other temporary quarters, or permanent
quarters occupied under a temporary arrangement.

(c)  "Mobile seafood vendor" means a person who sells or
offers for sale any seafood:

(1)  While outdoors on foot;

(2)  From any vehicle or conveyance, whether or not
the vehicle or conveyance is in operating condition; or

(3)  From any tent, temporary stand, roadside stand,
roadside market, or other quarters that is not an established
place of business.

(d)  "Seafood" means any finfish, crustacean, or mollusk,
live or dead, or any part, egg, offspring, or body of any
finfish, crustacean, or mollusk, that is intended for human
consumption.

(e)  "Right-of-way" includes any highway area or highway
structure and any property adjacent to a highway acquired for the
operation or use of the highway.

(f)  "Shopping center" means any 5 or more contiguous
established places of business which share common parking
facilities of 25 parking spaces or more.

(g)  "State highway" means any public highway owned by this
State.

24-302.

This subtitle does not:

(1)  Diminish any authority of a municipal corporation
to license and regulate mobile seafood vendors; [or]

(2)  Apply to charitable or nonprofit vendors who sell
seafood at short-term festivals or other short-term events; OR