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<subtitle article="gab" title_number="19" subtitle_number="10" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_name="Licenses for Specific Types of Organizations and Venues">
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-1001" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Licenses for Specific Types of Organizations and Venues">
    <level label="a">
      <text>There is an arts beer and wine license.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <level label="1">
        <text>The Board may issue the license to a nonprofit or for–profit retail business, including an art center, an art gallery, a museum, or a similar business that is primarily devoted to art that expresses matters of serious literary, artistic, scientific, or political value, that:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>engages in the display and sale of original artwork; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>is located in an arts and entertainment district approved by the Department of Commerce.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The Board may not issue the license to a business that displays and sells commercially prepared or mass–produced artistic products.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>The license holder may sell or serve beer and wine:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>at retail for on–premises consumption when snacks are served; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>on Monday through Sunday, during normal business hours but not earlier than 10 a.m. and not later than 10 p.m.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>The license may not be transferred from the location for which the license was originally issued to another location.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>The annual license fee is $250.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>The Board may adopt regulations to carry out this section.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-1002" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Licenses for Specific Types of Organizations and Venues">
    <level label="a">
      <text>There is a venue beer, wine, and liquor license.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The Board may issue the license to a nonprofit or for–profit retail business that hosts weddings, banquets, parties, meetings, and similar events, whether private or open to the public, at a venue that:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>is at least 2,000 square feet in size;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>can accommodate at least 100 individuals for a single event, whether inside the venue or outside on the venue’s premises; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>has adequate bathroom facilities.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <level label="1">
        <text>The license authorizes the license holder to sell or serve beer, wine, and liquor at retail, by the drink or by the bottle, for on–premises consumption:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>during an event hosted by the license holder at the license holder’s venue; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>only if food is also provided during the event.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>A license holder may not allow an individual to carry beer, wine, and liquor onto or off the licensed premises.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>The license may not be transferred to another location.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="e">
      <text>The license holder may sell beer, wine, and liquor during the hours and days as set out for a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license under § 19–2005 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="f">
      <text>The annual fee for the license is $1,500.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="g">
      <text>The Board may adopt regulations to carry out this section.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>