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SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

Approved May 5, 1989.

CHAPTER 229

(House Bill 653)

AN ACT concerning

Montgomery County - Alcoholic Beverages License Fees

MC 946-89

FOR the purpose of altering the annual license fees for certain
special and regular Class B alcoholic beverages licenses in
Montgomery County; making a technical correction; and
providing for the termination of certain provisions of this
Act.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 19(r)

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

19.

(r) (1) In Montgomery County [such a] THIS license shall be
issued by [the clerk, upon the advice and approval of] the board
of license commissioners, only to the owner of any restaurant or
hotel, having a minimum dining area of 1,000 square feet located
in the third, fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, or
thirteenth election districts of the county except in the Town of
Poolesville, Takoma Park and Kensington. As a prerequisite for
the initial issuance of a license under this subsection, the
owner shall attest in a sworn statement that gross receipts from
food sales in the restaurant or hotel will be in excess of two
times the gross receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages.
As a prerequisite for each renewal of a license issued under this
subsection, the owner shall attest in a sworn statement that the
gross receipts from food sales in the restaurant or hotel for the
12-month period immediately preceding the application for renewal

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