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<subtitle article="gab" title_number="19" subtitle_number="27" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-2701" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <level label="a">
      <text>The following sections of Title 6, Subtitle 3 (“Prohibited Acts”) of Division I of this article apply in the county without exception or variation:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>§ 6–305 (“Proof of age for sale of alcoholic beverages”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>§ 6–306 (“Defense to prosecution for sale to underage individual”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>§ 6–308 (“Allowing on–premises consumption of alcoholic beverages not purchased from license holder”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>§ 6–309 (“Allowing on–premises consumption or possession of alcoholic beverages by individual under the age of 21 years”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="5">
        <text>§ 6–310 (“Providing free food”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="6">
        <text>§ 6–311 (“Restrictions on purchases and sales by retail dealer”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="7">
        <text>§ 6–312 (“Beverage misrepresentation”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="8">
        <text>§ 6–313 (“Tampering with alcoholic beverage container”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="9">
        <text>§ 6–314 (“Sale of alcoholic beverage container with detachable metal tab”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="10">
        <text>§ 6–315 (“Alcoholic beverage in container without regular label presumed illicit”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="11">
        <text>§ 6–316 (“Maximum alcohol content”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="12">
        <text>§ 6–317 (“Multiple serving purchase required”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="13">
        <text>§ 6–320 (“Disorderly intoxication”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="14">
        <text>§ 6–321 (“Consumption of alcoholic beverages in public”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="15">
        <text>§ 6–323 (“Possession or use of Alcohol Without Liquid machine”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="16">
        <text>§ 6–326 (“Sale of alcoholic beverages in powder or crystalline form prohibited”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="17">
        <text>§ 6–327 (“Unlicensed out–of–state sale of alcoholic beverages”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="18">
        <text>§ 6–328 (“Tax evasion”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="19">
        <text>§ 6–329 (“Destruction of evidence”); and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="20">
        <text>§ 6–330 (“Perjury”).</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The following sections of Title 6, Subtitle 3 (“Prohibited Acts”) of Division I of this article apply in the county:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>§ 6–304 (“Selling or providing alcoholic beverages to individual under the age of 21 years”), subject to § 19–2702 of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>§ 6–307 (“Selling or providing alcoholic beverages to intoxicated individual”), subject to § 19–2703 of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>§ 6–319 (“On–premises consumption of alcoholic beverages not purchased from license holder”), subject to § 19–2704 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>§ 6–322 (“Possession of open container”), subject to § 19–2707 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-2702" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A license holder or an employee of a license holder who is charged with a violation of § 6–304 of this article:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>shall receive a summons to appear in court on a certain day to answer the charges placed against the license holder or employee; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>may not be required to post bail pending trial in any court in the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A license holder or an employee of a license holder may not be found guilty of a violation of § 6–304 of this article if:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>the license holder or employee establishes to the satisfaction of the finder of fact that the license holder or employee used due caution to establish that the individual was not under the age of 21 years; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>the individual was not a resident of the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>The granting of probation before judgment to a license holder or employee of the license holder for a violation of § 6–304 of this article does not bar the Board from proceeding administratively against the license holder for the violation.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-2703" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A license holder or an employee of a license holder who is charged with a violation of § 6–307 of this article:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>shall receive a summons to appear in court on a certain day to answer the charges placed against the license holder or employee; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>may not be required to post bail pending trial in any court in the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The granting of probation before judgment to a license holder or employee of the license holder for a violation of § 6–307 of this article does not bar the Board from proceeding administratively against the license holder for the violation.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-2704" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A person may not display or consume in a licensed establishment any alcoholic beverage other than those that the license holder of the licensed establishment may sell.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $25.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-2705" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <text>An individual under the age of 21 years may not be on the premises for which a Class D (on–sale) beer, wine, and liquor license has been issued.</text>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-2706" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A license holder may not allow an individual under the age of 21 years to loiter about the premises for which the license is issued.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $100.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="19-2707" title_number="19" title_name="Dorchester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <text>An individual may possess an alcoholic beverage in an open container on private property described under § 6–322(a)(1) of this article only if the individual possesses and presents the written consent of the owner of the property.</text>
  </section>
</subtitle>