WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 661

EXPLANATION: Article 2B, § 63(i), requiring payment to the County
Commissioners of Cecil County alcoholic beverage license fees for their
services as the County Board of License Commissioners, is obsolete and staff
recommends its repeal. Art. 2B, § 150(a-1) requires the appointment of an
independent board of license commissioners.

163.

[(j) In Kent County, in addition to the other powers listed in this section, the
Board shall have power to appoint a manager of said dispensaries, who shall hold office
at the pleasure of the County Commissioners, and shall furnish to the said Liquor Control
Board a good and sufficient bond in a penalty amount to be fixed by the said Liquor
Control Board for the faithful performance of his duties as manager. Said manager shall
receive as compensation for his services an annual salary of not less than three thousand
dollars ($3,000.00) nor more than eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500.00), and in
addition the Liquor Control Board shall from time to time have authority to reimburse
said manager for expenses incurred in the performance of his duties. The manager, with
the consent and approval of the Liquor Control Board, shall appoint such other
employees as may be necessary to conduct such County liquor dispensaries or branch
dispensaries, fix their compensation at not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 per
week and require such bonds for the faithful performance of their duties as the said
Board may in each case determine.]

EXPLANATION: Article 2B, § 163(j), authorizing the appointment of a dispensary
manager and requiring bonding of the manager and a specified salary range, is
obsolete and staff recommends its repeal. Kent County no longer maintains
liquor dispensaries.

165.

[(d) (2) The governing body of the Town of Betterton shall use its share of the
receipts from the dispensary located in said Town for improving the sewerage system and
when these improvements have been completed, then for improving the water supply
system, and such receipts shall not be used for any other purpose until the said
improvements have been made. The governing body of the Town of Galena shall use its
share of the receipts from the dispensary located in said Town for installing water mains
and contracting for securing water or for purchasing a water supply, and such receipts
shall not be used for any other purpose until the said improvements have been made.

(3) The governing body of the Town of Rock Hall shall use its share of the
receipts from the dispensary located in said Town for improving the water system or
constructing a sewer system, as said Town Commissioners shall determine, and such
receipts shall not be used for any other purpose until the said improvements have been
made.]

EXPLANATION: Article 2B, § 165(d), requiring the Towns of Betterton and Rock
Hall to use their shares of dispensary receipts from Kent County's
dispensaries in a certain manner is obsolete since Kent County no longer
maintains dispensaries. Staff recommends its repeal.

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