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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="21-602" title_number="21" title_name="Garrett County" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Beer Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Class B beer license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The license authorizes the license holder to sell beer for on– or off–premises consumption:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>at a hotel, a motel, or an inn that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>accommodates the public;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provides services ordinarily found in hotels, motels, or inns;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is equipped with at least 10 bedrooms for public accommodation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>has a lobby with a registration and mail desk, and seating; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a restaurant that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>has seating at tables, not including bars or counters, for at least 20 individuals; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>can prepare and serve full–course meals for at least 20 individuals at one seating.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board may issue the license with or without a catering option.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A license holder with a catering option may sell beer for consumption at events that the holder caters off the licensed premises anywhere in the county to a person of legal drinking age on premises that either do not have a license or have a temporary license issued by the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>To exercise the catering option, the license holder:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall provide food if the holder provides beer at a catered event off the licensed premises; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may exercise the catering option only during the hours and days that are allowed under the license.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>At each catered event where beer is served, the holder of the catering option shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>supply service personnel, including bartenders and wait staff;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>ensure that the service personnel are present at all times during the catered event; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>have at least one person at the catered event who is certified by an alcohol awareness program under § 4–505 of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The annual license fees are:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>$150 for a 6–day license without a catering option;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>$250 for a 6–day license with a catering option;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>$175 for a 7–day license without a catering option; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>$275 for a 7–day license with a catering option.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Board shall charge a one–time issuing fee for a new license in an amount equal to the annual license fee.</text>
  </level>
</section>
