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<subtitle article="gab" title_number="11" subtitle_number="21" title_name="Anne Arundel County" subtitle_name="Revocation and Suspension of Licenses">
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="11-2101" title_number="11" title_name="Anne Arundel County" subtitle_number="21" subtitle_name="Revocation and Suspension of Licenses">
    <level label="a">
      <text>The following sections of Title 4, Subtitle 6 (“Revocation and Suspension of Local Licenses”) of Division I of this article apply in the county without exception or variation:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>§ 4–602 (“Power of local licensing board”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>§ 4–604 (“Grounds for revocation or suspension”); and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>§ 4–606 (“Effects of revocation”).</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The following sections of Title 4, Subtitle 6 (“Revocation and Suspension of Local Licenses”) of Division I of this article apply in the county:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>§ 4–603 (“Revocation and suspension procedures”), subject to §§ 11–2102 and 11–2103 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>§ 4–605 (“Nudity and sexual displays”), subject to § 11–2104 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="11-2102" title_number="11" title_name="Anne Arundel County" subtitle_number="21" subtitle_name="Revocation and Suspension of Licenses">
    <level label="a">
      <level label="1">
        <text>In addition to the revocation and suspension procedures provided under § 4–603 of this article, the Board may immediately suspend a license if it is alleged by a person specified under paragraph (2) of this subsection that the license holder has sold or provided alcoholic beverages to an individual under the age of 21 years with such frequency and during such a limited time so as to demonstrate a willful failure to comply with § 6–304 of this article.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>An allegation under paragraph (1) of this subsection may be made by:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>the Comptroller or an agent or employee of the Comptroller;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>the Executive Director or an agent or employee of the Executive Director;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iii">
          <text>the Board or an agent or employee of the Board; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iv">
          <text>a peace officer.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A suspension under this section may not exceed 7 days.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>If a license is suspended under this section, the Board shall:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>hold a hearing on the matter within 7 days after the suspension begins; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>give notice to the license holder at least 2 days before the hearing.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>If the Board fails to provide the license holder with notice of a hearing before the end of the fifth day after a suspension begins:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>the suspension shall end; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>the license holder shall be allowed to resume the sale of alcoholic beverages on the next day allowed under the license.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="e">
      <text>This section does not prevent a license holder whose license is suspended under this section from seeking an injunction or other appropriate relief.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="11-2103" title_number="11" title_name="Anne Arundel County" subtitle_number="21" subtitle_name="Revocation and Suspension of Licenses">
    <level label="a">
      <text>Subject to subsection (b) of this section, instead of ordering the revocation or suspension of a license, the Board may order a license holder to exchange the license for a lesser license:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>under which only alcoholic beverages of a lower alcoholic content or of a more limited kind than under the license ordered exchanged may be sold; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>that has fewer privileges or more or greater restrictions than the license ordered exchanged.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>Subsection (a) of this section applies only if:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>after a hearing, the Board finds that a license holder or the operation of a licensed premises has violated or is violating this article; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>the penalty for the violation requires or allows a license to be revoked or suspended.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="11-2104" title_number="11" title_name="Anne Arundel County" subtitle_number="21" subtitle_name="Revocation and Suspension of Licenses">
    <level label="a">
      <text>This section applies only to an entertainment facility license issued under § 11–1005 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>Notwithstanding the mandatory revocation requirement for local licensing boards under § 4–605(a) of this article, after a finding that an activity listed in § 4–605 of this article has occurred, the Board may revoke the license.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>