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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="26-1511" title_number="26" title_name="Prince George's County" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board may adopt a calendar that establishes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>filing dates by which license applications are required to be filed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>hearing dates for license application hearings.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A filing date for a license application shall be at least 60 days before the hearing at which the application is to be heard.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board shall determine the number of licenses of each class that may be applied for at a hearing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The number of licenses that the Board makes available for issuance at a hearing may be less than the total number of licenses in each class that remains unissued by the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If, after a hearing, the applicants who are qualified for the issuance of a license of a certain class outnumber the licenses of that class authorized to be issued at the hearing, the Board shall determine the applicants who are best qualified to be license holders.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Board may not issue additional licenses of any class that were not determined and published as available for the hearing.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Before holding a hearing, the Board shall publish a notice of the hearing in at least two newspapers of general circulation in the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The notice shall be published at least 30 days before the date by which license applications are required to be filed for consideration at the hearing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The notice shall contain:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the number of licenses of each class that are available for issuance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a description of each class;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the date by which license applications must be filed to be considered at the license application hearing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the date of the hearing.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In addition to any other notice required under this article, the Board shall provide notice of the date, time, and location of a hearing, as soon as practicable after the hearing is scheduled, to all municipalities, civic associations, homeowners’ associations, and condominium associations that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>are within 1 mile of the location of the proposed place of business of the applicant; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>request to receive notice of hearings by signing up on a registry on the Board’s website.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A municipality, civic association, homeowners’ association, or condominium association that requests to receive notice of hearings under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection may elect to receive written or electronic notice.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
