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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="2-136" title_number="2" title_name="State-Issued Permits and Licenses" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Permits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a retail off–site permit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Executive Director may issue the permit to a holder of a license issued by a local licensing board:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>that allows the license holder to sell alcoholic beverages to the public for off–premises consumption; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>other than a chain store.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The holder of a permit shall notify the local licensing board of the jurisdiction in which the off–site event will be held that the permit has been issued.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A permit may be used only:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>at not more than three farmers’ markets in the jurisdiction in which the local license has been issued, that are listed in the farmers’ market directory of the Maryland Department of Agriculture;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>on invitation by a holder of a nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival permit, at the location of the permit, if the festival is located in the jurisdiction in which the local license has been issued or in an adjoining jurisdiction; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>during the hours of operation of the farmers’ market or the nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A permit authorizes the holder to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>at a farmers’ market, offer and sell beer, wine, and liquor produced by State–licensed manufacturers to consumers for consumption off the licensed premises;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at a nonprofit beer, wine, and liquor festival, offer and sell beer, wine, and liquor to consumers for consumption on and off the licensed premises; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>provide at no charge samples of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>beer, not to exceed 4 fluid ounces;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>wine, not to exceed 1 fluid ounce; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>liquor, not to exceed four samples that do not exceed one–quarter of 1 fluid ounce.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The fee is $100.</text>
  </level>
</section>
