PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 3

8-208.

(c) Any licensee in the County may apply at any time to the Board of License
Commissioners for the issuance of any class or type of license other than the license then
being held. The Board shall publish notice of the application in one newspaper of general
circulation in the County on each of two successive weeks. Thereafter the Board shall
hold a public hearing on the date fixed in the notice. The Board may approve the
application in its discretion, but in approving the application, the Board shall consider the
general reputation and character of the applicant, the manner of his conducting and
operating the business presently being licensed and the public necessity for the license for
which application is made. The Board, before approving any application, shall require an
inspection of the premises for which the application is made and shall require the
premises to comply with all of the rules and regulations of the Board applicable thereto.
In all respects, other than as provided herein, the application shall be subject to the
requirements of the provisions of this article applicable in the County. The fee for the
issuance of any license under this subsection shall be as follows: For a change from one
class of beer license to any other class of beer license, from any class of beer and wine
license to any other class of beer and wine license or from any class of beer, wine and
liquor license to any other class of beer, wine and liquor license, the fee for the transfer
is $1,000; for a change from any class of either beer license or beer and wine license to the
same class of beer, wine and liquor license or from one class of beer license to any other
class of beer and wine license, the fee for the transfer is $2,000; and for a change from any
class of either beer license or beer and wine license to any other class of beer, wine and
liquor license, the fee for the transfer is $3,000. All of the above transfer [fee] FEES shall
be in addition to the regular fee provided in this article for the license applied for. The
fee for issuance of any new license after July 1, 1972 shall be, in addition to the regular
yearly fee provided for in this article, for any class of beer license: $1,000; for any class of
beer and wine license: $2,000; and for any class of beer, wine and liquor license: $3,000.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Incorrect word usage in Article 2B, § 8-208(c).

Occurred: Ch. 700, Acts of 1968.

8-218.

(a) In the alcoholic beverage laws for Queen Anne's County, the following words
mean:

(2) The word "hotel" as used in § 3-201 and § 6-201 of this article, when
applied to Queen Anne's County, means a building or structure erected or constructed
for hotel purposes having 20 or more bedrooms providing services ordinarily found in
hotels, for the accommodation of the public, containing a dining room with facilities for
preparing and serving meals wherein the average daily receipts from the sale of food
[exceeds] EXCEED the average daily receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages.

(c) (1) Any licensee holding a Class B license, of any type, issued in Queen
Anne's County, biannually, on dates to be set by the Board of License Commissioners,
shall file with the Board a sworn statement that the gross receipts from food sales in the

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