Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(A) Any person or persons, engaged in any mercantile,
trading or manufacturing business as an agent or agents, or doing
business in any name or under any title or designation other than
his or their own name or names, shall, within thirty days from
June 1, 1922, or thereafter prior to commencing such business,
file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the
county wherein such business is conducted, and with the
Department of Assessments and Taxation, a certificate in writing,
under oath, disclosing the true and correct name or names and the
address or addresses of the principal or principals or true owner
or owners of the said business, the character and location
thereof and the name, title or designation under which said
business is conducted, the form of which certificate shall be as
follows:

State of Maryland, C .... of .... ss.:

I, or we, hereby certify that ...., residing at ...., is, or
are, the owner, or owners, of the business of ...., located and
conducted at ...., in the city, or town, of ...., in the county
of ...., in the State of Maryland, in the name, or under the
style, title or designation of ....

(Signed)

Sworn to and subscribed before me this .... day of ...., 19..

(Official title).

(B) [the] THE oath [to which certificate] REQUIRED UNDER
SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION may be taken before any officer
authorized under the laws of this State to administer [the same]
AN OATH.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Lack of clarity, requiring stylistic change in
Article 2, § 18.

Occurred: Ch. 381, Acts of 1922.

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

2.

For the purposes of this article and unless otherwise
required by the context:

(t) [(1)] "Consumer" means any natural person 21 years old
or older or any corporation not otherwise interdicted by this
article or any other law of this State, who buys, possesses,
keeps or transports alcoholic beverages upon which the taxes

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