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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 32-1 Definitions.">
  <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>
</baltimore-city-law>
