Ch. 416

LAWS OF MARYLAND

56A.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF § 56 OF THIS ARTICLE, AN
INDIVIDUAL OPERATING A VENDING FACILITY UNDER THE MARYLAND
VENDING PROGRAM FOR THE BLIND IS NOT REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A
TRADER'S LICENSE.

178.

(A) THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY:

(1) IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY; OR

(2) TO INDIVIDUALS OPERATING VENDING FACILITIES UNDER
THE MARYLAND VENDING PROGRAM FOR THE BLIND.

(B) Each person, firm or corporation, resident or

nonresident, operating or conducting a restaurant or eating
place, shall before doing so, take out a license therefor, and
shall pay an annual license fee of ten dollars ($10.00) for each
place of business so operated except that in incorporated towns
and cities of 8,000 inhabitants or over, the fee for each place
of business so operated shall be $25, except in Baltimore City,

where the fee is $50. [Provided, however, that this section

shall not apply in Montgomery County.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

Approved May 19, 1989.

CHAPTER 416

(House Bill 382)

AN ACT concerning

Local Government Tort Claims Act - Sewer and Water Authorities

FOR the purpose of adding certain sewer and water authorities to
the definition of "local government" for purposes of civil
liability and immunity under the Local Government Tort
Claims Act.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 5-401(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland

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