WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 594

(4) The [Liquor Control] Board may waive restrictions under this
subsection in approving an APPLICATION FOR 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.

(b) Nothing in this section shall preclude the renewal or transfer of any license
issued prior to July 1, 1981 even after existing license provisions have been exercised
under [§] §§ 18(o) and [§] 19(n) OF THIS ARTICLE. [In] THE Harford County [the
Liquor Control] Board may not issue more than one Class A off-sale license or one B1
and B2 license (inclusive) for every 2,500 of population. In addition, one additional Class
A-1 or A-2 beer, wine, and liquor off-sale license may be issued by the [Liquor Control]
Board for every 20,000 of population after July 1, 1984. However, in Harford County a
B-1 temporary (on-sale) license may be issued to those persons who wish after six months
to operate a bona fide Class B license. The B-1 license shall be revoked after the
six-month period has expired if the licensee has not met all requirements for a Class B
license. The population figures are those specified by the State Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene.

(f) [In] THE Harford County [, the Liquor Control] Board:

(1)     May not issue or transfer the location or ownership of any off-sale
alcoholic beverages license of any class for the use in a business that is intended to be
operated as a drive-through purchase facility where alcoholic beverages are to be sold at
retail and dispensed through a window or door to a purchaser in or on a motor vehicle for
off-premise consumption; or

(2)     May not transfer the location or ownership of any off-sale alcoholic
beverages license of any class with the privilege of operating the premises as a
drive-through purchase facility.

52B.

(a) [In] THE Montgomery County[, the] Board of License Commissioners may
not [approve] ISSUE any license to sell alcoholic beverages within 750 feet of any
secondary or elementary school, church[,] OR other [places] PLACE of worship, public
library or youth center sponsored or conducted by any governmental agency.
Measurement of the required distance shall be made from the nearest point of the
building of the proposed establishment for which the license is requested to the nearest
point of the building of the school, church[,] or other place of worship, public library or
youth center. The Board of License Commissioners may within [their] ITS discretion and
by unanimous action of the Board approve the application for any license to sell alcoholic
beverages more than 300 feet from any elementary or secondary school, church[,] OR
other place of worship, public library, or youth center sponsored or conducted by any
governmental agency provided that the land upon which the building is situated in which
the licensee would operate is classified in a commercial or industrial zone under the
applicable zoning ordinance and is adjacent and/or contiguous to other land which is
similarly classified under said zoning ordinance. Nothing in this section shall apply to or
affect or prohibit, in any manner, the renewal, transfer, or reissuance of a prior license of
any license of any establishment where subsequent to the original granting of said license

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