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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="20-903" title_number="20" title_name="Frederick County" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Beer, Wine, and Liquor Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Class B beer, wine, and liquor hotel or motel license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board may issue the license for use by a hotel or motel that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is an establishment to accommodate the public by providing services ordinarily found in a hotel or motel;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has at least 15 rooms;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>has a dining room with facilities for preparing and serving full–course meals for at least 28 individuals at one seating; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>has a capital investment in the hotel or motel facility of at least $400,000.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The license authorizes the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor by the individual drink at any place on the hotel or motel premises.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Subject to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, the license authorizes the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor by the bottle:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>at any place on the premises for a banquet, party, hospitality room, meeting, or a similar function; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>for dinner in the restaurant portion of the premises.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A customer may not remove from the premises any contents of a bottle sold under this paragraph that remains unused.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The license authorizes the sale of beer, wine, and liquor by the bottle through room service to a registered patron in a hotel or motel room.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Not more than two bottles may be sold through room service to any one customer in a 24–hour period.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A bottle sold through room service may be removed from the premises by the customer on checking out from the hotel or motel.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Board may issue not more than 10 licenses to the same license holder.</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 § 20–2005(b) of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The annual license fee is $2,000.</text>
  </level>
</section>
