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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="18-1004" title_number="18" title_name="Charles County" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Licenses for Specific Types of Organizations and Venues">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “resort complex” means a parcel or contiguous parcels of land:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>of at least 20 acres;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>under common ownership; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>with facilities that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>include a venue for golf, waterfront beach activities, or a marina;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>serve the public; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>resulted in a capital investment of at least $550,000 exclusive of the cost of the land.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a resort complex license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board may issue one resort complex license to the person owning or operating a resort complex.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The license authorizes the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor from:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>one or more outlets in the resort complex that may be consumed in conjunction with the playing of music and dancing at designated locations in the resort complex; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>one designated outlet in the resort complex for off–premises consumption.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A license holder may serve alcoholic beverages:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>at one or more outside outlets in the resort complex on Monday through Sunday, from 6 a.m. to midnight;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>at one or more inside outlets in the resort complex:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>on Monday through Saturday, from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. the following day; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>on Sunday, from 6 a.m. to midnight; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>at one designated outlet for off–premises consumption:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>on Monday through Saturday, from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. the following day; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>on Sunday, from 6 a.m. to midnight.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A resort complex license is exempt from any quota or restriction on off–sale licenses issued for the election district in which the resort complex is located.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Certain areas in a resort complex may be excluded from the portion of the property that is considered to be the licensed premises.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person other than the resort complex license holder may obtain a different class of license for an area excluded under paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>The annual license fees are:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>$3,500 for two outlet locations; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>$1,750 for each additional outlet location.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
