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<subtitle article="gab" title_number="27" subtitle_number="15" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Licenses">
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="27-1501" title_number="27" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Licenses">
    <level label="a">
      <text>The following sections of Title 4, Subtitle 2 (“Issuance or Denial of Local Licenses”) of Division I of this article apply in the county without exception or variation:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>§�4–205�(“Chain store, supermarket, or discount house”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>§�4–206�(“Limitations on retail sales floor space”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>§�4–207�(“Licenses issued to minors”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>§�4–208�(“Notice of license application required”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="5">
        <text>§�4–209�(“Hearing”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="6">
        <text>§�4–210�(“Approval or denial of license application”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="7">
        <text>§�4–211�(“License forms; effective date; expiration”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="8">
        <text>§�4–212�(“License not property”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="9">
        <text>§�4–213�(“Replacement licenses”); and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="10">
        <text>§�4–214�(“Waiting periods after denial of license applications”).</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The following sections of Title 4, Subtitle 2 (“Issuance or Denial of Local Licenses”) of Division I of this article apply in the county:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>§�4–202�(“Authority of local licensing boards”), subject to § 27–1502 of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>§�4–203�(“Prohibition against issuing multiple licenses to individual or for use of entity”), subject to § 27–1503 of this subtitle and Subtitle 13, Part III of this title; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>§�4–204�(“Prohibition against issuing multiple licenses for same premises”), subject to § 27–1503 of this subtitle and Subtitle 13, Part III and Subtitle 16, Part II of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="27-1502" title_number="27" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Licenses">
    <text>The Board may not issue a Class A beer, wine, and liquor license to a person or on behalf of a firm or corporation that has been convicted of a violation of this article.</text>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="27-1503" title_number="27" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Licenses">
    <text>Multiple licenses may be issued for the same premises or to an individual for the use of that individual, a partnership, a corporation, an unincorporated association, or a limited liability company if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the licenses are Class D beer or Class D beer and wine licenses; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>each premises is a bowling establishment that has at least 30 lanes with automatic pinsetters.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="27-1504" title_number="27" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Licenses">
    <level label="a">
      <level label="1">
        <text>Before a Class B license of any type may be issued, the applicant shall attest in a sworn statement that gross receipts from food sales in the restaurant will be more than the gross receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>If the license holder fails to maintain more gross receipts from the sale of food than gross receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages for a 6–month period, the Board may revoke the license.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <level label="1">
        <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a license holder of a Class B license of any type shall file with the Board a sworn statement that the gross receipts from food sales in the restaurant for the 6–month period immediately before the filing of the report are more than the gross receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The Board may require a license holder to provide:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>the sworn statement required under paragraph (1) of this subsection at least biannually, on dates to be set by the Board; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>supporting data to establish that the requirements of paragraph (1) of this subsection have been met.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="27-1505" title_number="27" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Licenses">
    <text>The Board may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>give tentative approval to issuing a license for an establishment that is not completed, based on plans and specifications that accompany the application; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>issue the license when the construction is completed in accordance with the plans and specifications.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>