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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 820

52A.

(a) (1) [In] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (1) PARAGRAPHS
(2) AND (3) OF THIS SUBSECTION, IN Harford County, the board of
license commissioners may not approve any license to sell
alcoholic beverages within 300 feet of any church or other place
of worship or within 1,000 feet of any public school building.
This section does not affect any license existing on July 1,
1975. The board may not approve any license to sell alcoholic
beverages within 1,000 feet of any private, parochial, or bona
fide church school building. This section does not affect any
license existing on July 1, 1977. This section does not affect
the renewal, transfer, or upgrading of a license unless
transferred to a new location. Measurement of the required
distance shall be made from the nearest point of the building of
the establishment to the nearest point of the building of the
school, church, or other place of worship. Any decision of the
Harford County Board of Education after June 30, 1975 to locate a
public school building within 1,000 feet of an existing licensee
may not be the basis for the revocation or denial of renewal,
transfer, or upgrading of that alcoholic beverage license. This
section does not preclude a church or school from applying for a
1-day license to be used on their premises.

(2)  In Bel Air, Aberdeen, and Havre de Grace, the
liquor control board may approve the issuance of a Class B
license to sell alcoholic beverages to a bona fide hotel, motel,
or restaurant, as defined in § 19(n) of this article, approve the
issuance of a Class C license to a club, as defined in § 20(h-2)
of this article, or approve the issuance of a Class H license to
a caterer, as defined in § 24B(a) of this article, if the club,
hotel, motel, restaurant, or caterer is not located within 300
feet of any public or nonpublic school.

(3)  IN THE INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES OF HARFORD
COUNTY, THE LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD MAY, ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONS
OF SECTION 60 OF THIS ARTICLE, APPROVE THE ISSUANCE OF A LICENSE
TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES TO A BONA FIDE HOTEL, MOTEL OR
RESTAURANT AS DEFINED IN SECTION 19(N), CLUB AS DEFINED IN
SECTION 20(H-2) OR CATERER AS DEFINED IN SECTION 24B(A) WITHIN
300 FEET OF A CHURCH OR PLACE OF WORSHIP.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 27, 1986.