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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="11-902" title_number="11" title_name="Anne Arundel County" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Beer, Wine, and Liquor Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board may issue the license for use by a restaurant that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>has ample space and accommodations for regularly preparing, selling, and serving hot meals to the public at least twice daily;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is equipped with a public dining room with sufficient tables, chairs, cutlery, and glassware to serve the meals prepared in the restaurant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>is equipped with a kitchen that has complete facilities and utensils for preparing and serving hot and cold meals to the public; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>employs a sufficient number of cooks and wait staff to serve the number of customers accommodated in the dining room.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The license authorizes the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail at the place described in the license, for on– or off–premises consumption.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Before each renewal of the license, the license holder shall attest in a sworn statement that the gross receipts from food sales for the 12–month period immediately preceding the application for renewal were at least equal to 51% of the gross receipts from the sale of food and alcoholic beverages sold for on–premises consumption.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The annual fee for the license is $1,080.</text>
  </level>
</section>
