Ch. 530                                           LAWS OF MARYLAND

1,000 feet of any private, parochial, or bona fide church school
building. This section does not affect any license existing on
July 1, 1977. This section does not affect the renewal, transfer,
or upgrading of a license unless transferred to a new location.
Measurement of the required distance shall be made from the
nearest point of the building of the establishment to the nearest
point of the building of the school, church, or other place of
worship. Any decision of the Harford County Board of Education
after June 30, 1975 to locate a public school building within
1,000 feet of an existing licensee may not be the basis for the
revocation or denial of renewal, transfer, or upgrading of that
alcoholic beverages license. This section does not preclude a
church or school from applying for a 1-day license to be used on
their premises.

(2)   In Bel Air, Aberdeen, and Havre de Grace, the
liquor control board may approve the issuance of a Class B
license to sell alcoholic beverages to a bona fide hotel, motel,
or restaurant, as defined in § 19(n) of this article, approve the
issuance of a Class C license to a club, as defined in § 20(h-2)
of this article, or approve the issuance of a Class H license to
a caterer, as defined in § 24B(a) of this article, if the club,
hotel, motel, restaurant, or caterer is not located within 300
feet of any public or nonpublic school.

(3)   In the incorporated municipalities of Harford
County, the liquor control board:

(I)   [may] MAY, according to the provisions of
Section 60 of this article, approve the issuance of a license to
sell alcoholic beverages to a bona fide hotel, motel, or
restaurant as defined in Section 19(n), club as defined in
Section 20(h-2) or caterer as defined in Section 24B(a) within
300 feet of a church or place of worship; AND

(II)  MAY APPROVE THE ISSUANCE OF ANY ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES LICENSE TO A BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT, IF THE BUSINESS IS
NOT LOCATED WITHIN 300 FEET OF ANY PUBLIC OR NONPUBLIC SCHOOL.

(4)  The liquor control board may waive restrictions
under this subsection in approving an alcoholic beverages license
where an existing retail building or unit has an entrance not
within 1,000 feet of the nearest point of a school building and
no more than 25 percent of the floor area of the existing unit is
within 1,000 feet of a school building.

(e) [In] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THIS ARTICLE, IN
Harford County, the board of license commissioners may not issue
or transfer to any neighborhood a Class A (off-sale) beer and
wine license, a Class A-l or Class A-2 (off-sale) beer, wine and
liquor license, if any of these classes of licenses exist in that
neighborhood.

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