WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                    Ch. 507

vacancies, and removal of Board members; providing for
officers and their terms of office; providing for a quorum,
meetings, compensation and staff; providing for powers and
duties of the Board; providing for powers and duties of the
State Secretary of Agriculture; creating a winegrowers'
winery and grape growers' productivity fund; providing for
the funding and disbursements from the fund; and generally
relating to labeling, advertising, and selling standards for
wine and the Winegrowers' Maryland Winery and Grape Growers'
Advisory Board.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 5(a), (d), (e), and (g)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1981 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 5A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Agriculture

Section 10-1001 through 10-1008 10-1007, inclusive, to be
under the new subtitle "Subtitle 10. Winegrowners'
Maryland Winery and Grape Growers' Advisory Board"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

Preamble

WHEREAS, The General Assembly finds that it is in the
interest of the public welfare that winegrowers be authorized and
encouraged to act jointly and in cooperation with others to
increase the productivity of all phases of grape and wine
production in Maryland and to provide for continuing orderly
growth by sponsoring and encouraging research, education,
promotion, and marketing of Maryland wine winery products, wine
grapes, and other fruit used in the production of wine; and

WHEREAS, The purposes of this Act are:

(1) To identify and implement methods for improving
Maryland's rank as a wine-producing state;

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