WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 5

This section is reorganized to place all counties and Baltimore City in a standard
alphabetical arrangement. The exclusionary subsection, (n), is repealed because each
county is mentioned in the body of the section, with jurisdictions that do not have a Class
A (beer and light wine) license so noted.

In the following counties, references to the percent alcohol of volume permitted in
the light wine has been transferred to new § 12 of this article:

Harford County

Queen Anne's County

Somerset County

Wicomico County

Worcester County

14.

(a)     A Class B beer and light wine license shall be issued by the clerk of the circuit
court of the county in which the place of business is located. [, and shall authorize the]
THE holder [to] MAY keep for sale and sell beer and light wines at retail at any hotel or
restaurant, at the place described in the license, for consumption on the premises or
elsewhere. The annual fee shall be [payable] PAID to the clerk before any license is
issued.

(b)     This section does not apply in Allegany County.

(c)     In Anne Arundel County the annual license fee is $400.

(d)     In Baltimore City, the annual license fee is $150.

(e)     (1) In Baltimore County the annual license fee is $150.

(2) The area of the licensed premises normally used as a restaurant for the
preparation and consumption of food and beverage on the premises may occupy no less
than 80 percent of the square foot area. These occupancy requirements do not apply to or
affect any present licensee having this license prior to December 31, 1966.

(f)      In Calvert County the annual license fee is $250.

(g)     In Caroline County the annual license fee is $500.
(h) In Carroll County the annual license fee is $160.
(i) In Cecil County the annual license fee is $90.

(j) This section does not apply in Charles County.

(k) (1) In Dorchester County [, a] THE ANNUAL LICENSE FEE IS $300.

(2) A Class B (on-sale and off-sale) beer and light wine license shall be
issued:

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