Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

certificate of approval may not be presented to nor payment made
to the clerk of the court. If no such findings are made by the
board, then the application shall be approved and the board shall
issue the license applied for, after payment of the required fee
to the treasurer of Prince George's County, and the board shall
maintain a record of licenses issued. In addition, in Baltimore
City, a license may not be issued by the clerk of the circuit
court unless and until there is presented to him a certificate,
issued by the bureau of assessments, showing that there are no
unpaid taxes on the merchandise, fixtures and stock of the
applicant due to the City of Baltimore or the State of Maryland.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Grammatical error and extraneous comma in
Article 2B, § 60(a).

Occurred: Ch. 351, Acts of 1978 made the first
sentence ungrammatical; punctuation error occurred
prior to 1957 codification of the Annotated Code of
Maryland.

63.

(u) The Comptroller shall be entitled to retain from the
license and permit fees collected by him for the use of the State
of Maryland[,] such sums as may be necessary to pay refunds on
licenses issued by him and the expenses incurred by him in the
discharge of the duties imposed by this article.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Extraneous punctuation in Article 2B, § 63(u).

Occurred: Prior to 1957 codification of the Annotated
Code of Maryland.

64.

(a) No holder of any class of license shall be entitled to a
refund of the unearned portion of the fee paid for a license,
upon the surrender thereof, except:

(1)  In the event of receivership or bankruptcy of the
business in the event a transfer is not requested, and in such
case the refund shall be made for the benefit of the creditors of
such [licensee,] LICENSEE; or

(2)  In the event of the death of the license holder,
and in such case the refund shall be made for the benefit of the
estate of such deceased license [holder,] HOLDER; or

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