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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="2-131" title_number="2" title_name="State-Issued Permits and Licenses" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Permits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “off–site permit” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a manufacturer off–site permit; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a retail off–site permit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival permit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Executive Director may issue the permit to a nonprofit organization, as defined by § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, that meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The permit authorizes the permit holder to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>conduct a nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival for at least 1 day and not more than 3 consecutive days;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>purchase beer, wine, and liquor at wholesale to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>provide to a consumer a sample that may not exceed:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>for beer, 4 fluid ounces for each offering;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>for wine, 1 fluid ounce for each offering; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="C">
          <text>for liquor, four samples of one–quarter of 1 fluid ounce for each offering; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>sell to a consumer beer, wine, and liquor for on– and off–premises consumption; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>contract with a holder of a retail off–site permit to operate a sampling and sales area.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The permit holder shall provide space at a nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival for holders of off–site permits.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A holder of an off–site permit that attends a nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival may provide beer, wine, and liquor to a consumer in the same manner as the holder of the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival permit.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The permit holder may provide or sell at the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival only alcoholic beverages provided by the permit holder or a holder of an off–site permit that is in attendance.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>At all times during the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival, the permit holder shall have present at least two agents, one of whom may be the permit holder, who are certified by an approved alcohol awareness program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Not less than 30 days before the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival, a person shall submit an application to the Executive Director.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The application shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>be on a form that the Executive Director provides;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>state that the primary purpose of the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival is to promote Maryland beer, wine, and liquor;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>provide details of the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival, including the location, dates, and times of operation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>include appropriate evidence that the applicant has been given permission by the owner of the property where the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival is to be held.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>Not less than 15 days before the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival, the permit holder shall provide the Executive Director with a list of off–site permit holders that will attend.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>The permit fee is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>$100, to promote a single product category;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>$150, to promote two product categories; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>$200, to promote three product categories.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
