PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 3

[9-201.] 9-202.

(a) [In] THIS SECTION APPLIES ONLY IN Allegany County. [no person, other
than]

(B) (1) ONLY a citizen of the United States [of America] shall have an interest
of any kind or character in any business for which a license is issued. [hereunder, and
no]

(2) A license [hereunder shall] MAY NOT be issued to any person who is
not a citizen of Allegany County.

[(b)] (C) (1) [No] A license for CLASSES A AND B beer [,] or beer and light
[wines, Classes A and B,] WINE or for CLASSES A, B, AND D beer, wine and liquor [,
Classes A, B and D, shall] MAY NOT be granted to any person [or persons] whose
location or business [shall be] IS in any part of [Allegany] THE County except
incorporated towns and cities and communities in which there [shall be] ARE not less
than [five hundred] 500 bona fide residents within a radius of one mile.

(2) This subsection does not apply to any restaurant deriving more than
[fifty] 50 percent of its average monthly gross receipts from the sale of other than
alcoholic beverages, or to any hotel or motel having at least [twenty] 20 lodging rooms or
units regularly for hire as such and offering meals for sale as a regular and substantial
part of its business. Any license issued under this exception to a restaurant, hotel, or
motel, [shall] MAY not be reissued, renewed, or transferred if the LICENSE holder
[thereof] does not continue to comply with the requirements of this section [applying
thereto].

[(c)] (D) (1) Except for clubs and hotels and motels, [no] A license [shall]
MAY NOT be issued for premises which do not front upon a public street[, and no].

(2) A blind or obstruction [shall be allowed or permitted which] may NOT
obstruct the view of persons passing along [said] THE street from a full view of [such]
licensed premises.

[(d)] (E) (1) The Board may refuse to issue a license whenever in its opinion
any petitioner or petitioners is or are an unfit person or persons to be granted such
license; or in the discretion of the Board when the place for which the APPLICATION FOR
A license is [applied for] MADE is not a proper one with reference to the public peace
and general welfare of the neighborhood or to the character of its inhabitants. [, due
regards being] DUE REGARD SHALL BE given to the number of [said] licenses issued
for [said] A neighborhood as well as all specific restrictions and conditions set forth in
this article.

(2) (i) The Board shall restrict the granting of the number of those
licenses designated as beer, wine and liquor licenses Classes A and D so that the total
number of licenses granted in these classes in each of the license categories [shall] DOES
not exceed more than one to every 1300 persons residing in [Allegany] THE County as
determined by the last [U.S.] FEDERAL census; and

(ii) The Board shall restrict the granting of the aggregate number of
those licenses designated as beer and light wine [license] LICENSES Classes A and D,

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