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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="23-1006.1" title_number="23" title_name="Howard County" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Licenses for Specific Types of Organizations and Venues">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “shopping mall” means a combination of commercial, professional, or retail establishments that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>are open to the general public for business purposes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>are under common ownership or control;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>share common parking facilities; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>encompass at least 60 acres.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a consumption only shopping mall plaza license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board may issue a consumption only shopping mall plaza license to the owner of a shopping mall if the shopping mall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>includes at least one restaurant for which a Class B license has been issued; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>contains a designated outdoor plaza for the consumption of alcoholic beverages.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The license authorizes the license holder to allow the consumption of beer, wine, and liquor in a designated outdoor plaza located on the premises of the shopping mall if the beer, wine, or liquor is purchased at a restaurant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>that is located within the shopping mall;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for which a Class B license has been issued;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>that is contiguous to the designated outdoor plaza; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>that uses containers branded with an identifying mark of the seller.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>As part of the license application, an owner of a shopping mall shall include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a description of the designated outdoor plaza and a list of the contiguous license holders whose beer, wine, and liquor may be consumed in the designated outdoor plaza; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a security plan that has been approved by the Howard County Police Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The license holder may allow the consumption of beer, wine, and liquor in the designated outdoor plaza on Monday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The annual license fee is $4,000.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “participating restaurant” means a restaurant described under subsection (d) of this section that participates in a coordinated promotion of a special event with the owner of a shopping mall in which the restaurant is located.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>There is a shopping mall plaza special event permit.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Board may issue the permit only to the holder of a consumption only shopping mall plaza license.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The holder of a consumption only shopping mall plaza license shall apply to the Board for the permit before the holder or a participating restaurant may publicize, sell tickets for, organize, operate, produce, or stage the special event.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The permit authorizes participating restaurants to operate additional bars or service counters for the sale and service of food and alcoholic beverages in the designated outdoor plaza described under the consumption only shopping mall plaza license during a special event.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The permit fee is $500.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
