WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         S.B. 668

Before a license or permit may be issued under this article to an employer to engage
in an activity in which the employer may employ a covered employee, as defined in §
9-10] of the Labor and Employment Article, the employer shall file with the [issuing
authority] STATE COMPTROLLER OR LOCAL LICENSING BOARD, AS THE CASE MAY
BE:

(1)     A certificate of compliance with the Maryland Workers' Compensation

Act; or

(2)     The number of a workers' compensation insurance policy or binder.

44A.

(a)     A license to sell alcoholic beverages may not be issued by a [clerk of the
circuit court] LICENSE ISSUING AUTHORITY FOR A COUNTY to a minor without a
special order of a judge.

(b)     A judge may pass a special order to issue TO A MINOR a license to sell
alcoholic beverages [to a minor] only on the recommendation of at least 10 residents of
the district where the license will be operative.

(c)     Whenever a license to sell alcoholic beverages is issued to a minor, the minor
is responsible for all contracts made in conducting business under the license and may be
sued on the contracts in any court of the State.

(d)     The responsibility of the minor does not affect or impair the responsibility of
the parent of the minor under existing law.

47.

(a) [In] THE Baltimore County[, the] Board of License Commissioners [shall
not approve] MAY NOT ISSUE any license to sell alcoholic beverages within 300 feet of
any school, church or other place of worship. The said 300 feet are measured from the
nearest point of the building of the proposed establishment to the nearest point of the
building of the school, church or other places of worship. Nothing in this section shall
apply to or affect or prohibit, in any manner, the renewal or transfer of any license of any
establishment where, subsequent to the original granting of said license a school or
church building was erected within 300 feet.

49.

(a) In Charles and Howard Counties, when application for a liquor license is
made to sell alcoholic beverages in a building which is not completed, the [Charles
County Liquor Board and the] Board of License Commissioners [of Howard County]
may give tentative approval of the application on the basis of plans and specifications
accompanying the application. Upon completion of the building in accordance with the
aforesaid plans and specifications, [the Liquor Board and] the Board [of License
Commissioners of Howard County] may [give final approval of the application] ISSUE
THE LICENSE.

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