Ch. 5

1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

3.       Having a dining area or areas with sufficient tables, chairs or
booths to comfortably seat and accommodate patrons.

4.       Equipped with a kitchen having complete facilities and
utensils for preparing hot and cold meals to the public.

5.       Employing a sufficient number of cooks, waiters or waitresses
to serve the number of patrons provided for in the dining area or areas.

6.       Maintaining and displaying a menu advertising the serving of
a variety of hot meals. There shall be on the premises at all times sufficient food to fill
orders made from the menu.

(iv) Any interruption of restaurant facilities for any reason shall be
reported to the Board promptly.

(v) Any drug, candy or confectionery store may not be construed to be
a restaurant.

(vi) On and after May 1, 1966, any new application for a beer, wine and
liquor license, Class B may not be granted by the Board, and any transfer from one
location to another location by the same license holder, and any transfer from one license
holder to another at the same location, or from one license holder to another at a
different location, may not be approved unless the establishment where it is proposed to
locate or transfer the license meets the standards contained in this section.

[(2)](3) This license may be issued to any agricultural association,
agricultural fair association or any other association duly authorized to conduct racing
under the provisions of the Maryland Horse Racing Act where restaurant facilities are
available or to duly authorized concessionaires of any association, or to any organization
on any other day, exclusive of racing days, where the premises and facilities of this
association are used for a limited period of time for legitimate theatrical productions,
social receptions, and any bona fide entertainment conducted by any club, society or
association, or for any bona fide religious, fraternal, civic, war veterans, hospital or
charitable organizations upon payment of a license fee of $25 per day for the period of
this license. At least one officer of the corporation or the concessionaire, whichever
applies for the license, shall be a resident of the State of Maryland. The residency
requirements specified in § 40 of this article as it pertains to Prince George's County do
not apply to an issuance, renewal or transfer of this license.

[(3)] (4) (i) There is a special Class B license known as Class BH, which
shall be issued only to hotels.

(ii) In this paragraph "hotel" means an establishment recognized as a
hotel for the accommodation of the public providing services ordinarily found in hotels
and equipped with not less than 45 bedrooms, a lobby with registration and mail desk and
seating facilities and a dining room with facilities for preparing and serving regular meals,
where the average daily receipts from the hire of rooms and the sale of food exceeds the
average daily receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages. The capital investment in the
facility, including the building or buildings and all fixtures and systems contained therein
and components thereof, parking compound, swimming pool and other recreational area,

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