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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 32 – Minors - Sales in Proximity to Liquor Store">
  <section prefix="§" num="32-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Close proximity ....">“Close proximity to liquor store” means located:<para num="(1)">on the premises of a liquor store; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">in a structure that immediately adjoins a liquor store and has direct access to the interior of that liquor store.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Liquor store.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, “liquor store” means any establishment that sells alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Liquor store” includes a licensee who holds one of the following off-sale licenses:<para num="(i)">a Class A beer, wine, and liquor license;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a Class A-2 beer, wine, and liquor off-sale package goods license; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">a Class B-D-7 beer, wine, and liquor license if, on an annual basis, the Class B-D-7 licensee’s average daily receipts from sales of alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption exceeds 40% of the licensee’s total average daily receipts from all sales (on-sale and off-sale) of alcoholic beverages.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusions.">“Liquor store” does not include:<para num="(i)">an establishment that sells non-alcoholic products (e.g., groceries or other food items, paper goods, home and office supplies, and other goods or merchandise) the average daily receipts from which sales, on an annual basis, exceed 80% of the establishment’s total average daily receipts; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a licensee who holds:<para num="(A)">an on-sale license (other than a Class B-D-7 license included under paragraph (2)(iii) of this subsection); or</para>
          <para num="(B)">one of the following off-sale licenses:<para num="1.">Class A beer and light wine license (off-sale); and</para>
            <para num="2.">Class A2 light wine license (on- and off-sale).</para>
          </para>
        </para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-046</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="32-2" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="32-3" heading="Sales to minors.">
    <text>No person in close proximity to a liquor store may sell any food, goods, supplies, or other merchandise (even if non-alcoholic) to any minor&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;</text>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-046</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="32-4" heading="Inducing minor to purchase.">
    <text>No person may request or induce a minor to purchase any food, goods, supplies, or other merchandise in violation of  &lt;cite data-path="|19|§32-3"&gt;§ 32-3 {“Sales to minors”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</text>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-046</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="32-5" heading="False representation by minor.">
    <text>No minor may knowingly and falsely represent her- or himself to any person as being 18 years old or older for the purpose of purchasing any food, goods, supplies, or other merchandise in violation of  &lt;cite data-path="|19|§32-3"&gt;§ 32-3 {“Sales to minors”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</text>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-046</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§§" num="32-6 to 32-8" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="32-9" heading="Enforcement by citation.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In addition to any other civil or criminal remedy or enforcement procedure, this subtitle may be enforced by issuance of:<para num="(1)">an environmental citation under City Code &lt;cite data-path="|1"&gt;Article 1&lt;/cite&gt;, Subtitle 40 {“Environmental Control Board”}; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">a civil citation under City Code &lt;cite data-path="|1"&gt;Article 1&lt;/cite&gt;, Subtitle 41 {“Civil Citations”}.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Process not exclusive.">The issuance of a citation to enforce this subtitle does not preclude pursuing any other civil or criminal remedy or enforcement action authorized by law.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-046</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="32-10" heading="Criminal penalties.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Any person who violates a provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to the penalties specified in this section.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Penalty amounts.">
      <para num="(1)">For a violation of § 32-3 {“Sales to minors”} or § 32-4  {“Inducing minor to purchase”}, the penalty is a fine of not more than $500 for each offense.</para>
      <para num="(2)">For a violation of § 32-5  {“False representation by minor”}, the penalty is as follows:<para num="(1)">for a 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; conviction, a fine of not more than $100 for each offense; and</para>
        <para num="(2)">for a 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; or subsequent conviction, a fine of not more than $250 for each offense.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-046</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
