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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="12-1509" title_number="12" title_name="Baltimore City" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Board:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>may not require that protests against the issuance of a license be accompanied by an abstract of title from the land records of the City substantiating the protestants’ ownership of the real or leasehold property; but</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may require that a qualified person familiar with the land records of the City appear at the hearing and testify as to who is the holder of full legal title as shown by the land records.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If an owner of property that is owned jointly appears in person at the hearing as a protestant, the other owners’ protest may be recorded by an affidavit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On request, the Board shall provide an affidavit form to any person who claims to be a protestant.</text>
  </level>
</section>
