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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="25-310" title_number="25" title_name="Montgomery County" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Alcohol Beverage Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>With the approval of the County Executive, the Director may establish a dispensary at one or more locations that the Director determines.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Services may sell its inventory through:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>dispensaries selling at wholesale and retail; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>subject to subsection (c) of this section, retail outlets operated by individuals with whom the Services contracts.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notwithstanding any other law, the Director may sell at wholesale or retail alcoholic beverages in whole cases or in individual bottles through dispensaries to a license holder in the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Services may not sell alcoholic beverages at different prices to different license holders or classes of license holders.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Director may not contract with a person to operate:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a dispensary; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a retail outlet for the sale of beer, wine, and liquor.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Director may enter into a contract with a person to operate a retail outlet for the sale of liquor for off–premises consumption if the person holds any license for off–premises consumption or for on– and off–premises consumption.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Services shall establish criteria for contracting with retail outlets.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>In this subsection the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Beer” includes draft beer in refillable and nonrefillable containers.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>“Wine” includes wine in refillable containers.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A dispensary:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>may sell only:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>except as provided for in subsection (e) of this section, for off–premises consumption, nonchilled beer, wine, and liquor;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>ice;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>bottled water; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>items commonly associated with the serving or consumption of alcoholic beverages, including bottle openers, corkscrews, drink mixes, and lime juice; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may not sell snack foods or soft drinks.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A dispensary may sell any product in the dispensary’s inventory for the purpose of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>holding tastings of beer, wine, and liquor on the premises of the dispensary only;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>serving, for tasting, beer, wine, and liquor; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>allowing the consumption of beer, wine, and liquor by an individual for tasting in a quantity of not more than:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>one–half ounce from each offering of liquor;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <level label="1">
            <text>5 ounces from all offerings of liquor in a day;</text>
          </level>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>1 ounce from each offering of wine;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>4 ounces from all offerings of wine in a day;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>3 ounces from each offering of beer; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>12 ounces from all offerings of beer in a day.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Once opened, a bottle used for beer, wine, or liquor tasting shall be marked that it is to be used for that purpose only.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A dispensary may sell chilled beer or chilled wine for off–premises consumption only from a keg for the purpose of filling:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>for beer, a refillable container or a nonrefillable container; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>for wine, a refillable container.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Services may sell or deliver alcoholic beverages to a retail license holder from 6 a.m. to midnight on every day except Sunday.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>A manager of a dispensary, an individual who contracts to operate a retail outlet as authorized under subsection (c) of this section, or an employee of a dispensary or retail outlet who commits a prohibited act related to the sale or providing of alcoholic beverages to individuals under the age of 21 years under this article or the Criminal Law Article is subject to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>any penalty authorized by law, including a civil citation issued under § 10–119 of the Criminal Law Article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a fine and suspension or revocation of employment by the Board in the same manner as a license holder or employee of a license holder would be subject to a fine and suspension or revocation of the license for the violation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Title 4, Subtitle 2 of this article does not apply to this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
