Ch. 224                             LAWS OF MARYLAND

Approved May 5, 1989,

CHAPTER 224

(House Bill 601)

AN ACT concerning

Worcester County - Alcoholic Beverages License

FOR the purpose of requiring a Worcester County alcoholic
beverages licensee to receive approval from the County Board
of License Commissioners prior to any transfer or assignment
of any pecuniary interest by any owner of the licensed
business; requiring the Board to approve the transfer or
assignment; and generally relating to transfers or
assignments of certain interests by alcoholic beverages
licensees in Worcester County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 74(j)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

74.

(j) (1) In Worcester County, notwithstanding any other
provision of Article 2B, any corporation or club holding any
class of alcoholic beverages license other than Class C may,
during any license year, substitute the name of one of its
officers for the name of any other officer on the license when
the deleted officer has died, retired, been removed from office,
or no longer holds an office in the corporation or club if the
substitute is a fit person approved by the board and can meet all
the requirements the substitute would have to meet if the
substitute were named in the original application. The
corporation or club shall file an affidavit and application as in
the case of an original license application with the board of
license commissioners showing the substitution of the officer or
officers with an explanation of the substitution. Upon receipt
of the affidavit and application and after a find by the board
that the person is a fit person and would meet all the

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