PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 480

(d)    No licensee, proprietor, or operator of any establishment dispensing alcoholic
beverages shall permit the consumption or possession of any alcoholic beverages by a
person under the age of twenty-one years upon said premises no matter by whom such
alcoholic beverages shall have been purchased or from whom obtained. A violation of this
subsection is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $50 in addition to any
other penalties provided under this article.

(e)     Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contrary, in Queen
Anne's County, if any licensee or employee of the licensee is placed on probation before
judgment for any alleged violation of subsection (a) of this section, this finding may not
operate as a bar to any proceeding brought by the Board of License Commissioners
against the licensee on account of the alleged violation.

(f)     In Howard [County,] COUNTY AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY, the granting
of probation before judgment to a licensee or employee of the licensee for violating
subsection (a) of this section does not bar the Board of License Commissioners from
proceeding administratively against the licensee for the violation.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved May 14, 1996.

CHAPTER 480
(House Bill 683)

AN ACT concerning

Alcoholic Beverages - Value of Advertising

FOR the purpose of altering the maximum amount certain brandowners may spend on
certain advertisements; altering the maximum amount certain brandowners may
spend on materials and labor for certain advertisements; and generally relating to
the advertising of alcoholic beverages.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages
Section 12-104(a) and (b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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