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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="32-1001" title_number="32" title_name="Wicomico County" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Licenses for Specific Types of Organizations and Venues">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Class B–BB (bed and breakfast) beer and wine license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board may issue the license to a license holder who is approved by the appropriate local governmental unit to operate a bed and breakfast that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>provides services ordinarily provided by a bed and breakfast;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has at least one room but not more than 10 rooms, each with sleeping accommodations, excluding resident management quarters, that the public for consideration may use for a specified time; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>has a kitchen facility that has been approved by the appropriate local governmental unit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The license authorizes the license holder to sell beer and wine to a guest if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the name and address of the guest appears on the registry that the bed and breakfast maintains; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the guest is an occupant of a sleeping room in the bed and breakfast.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The license authorizes the license holder to sell beer and wine for on–premises consumption to a guest of a catered event at the bed and breakfast if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <level label="1">
          <text>the license holder is under contract to cater the event;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the license holder caters the event; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>food is served at the catered event; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the license holder hosts an event for which tickets are sold in advance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The license authorizes the license holder to allow a guest of the bed and breakfast, whose name and address appear on the registry of the establishment, to bring personal alcoholic beverages onto the premises for on–premises consumption during the hours and days as set out under subsection (e) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The license holder may sell beer and wine for on–premises consumption on Monday through Sunday, from 7 a.m. to midnight.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Except during catered events that meet the requirements under subsection (d) of this section or ticketed events hosted by the license holder, the license does not authorize the sale of beer and wine to an individual who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is not a guest of the bed and breakfast; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is registered as a guest at the bed and breakfast only to obtain beer and wine.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A bed and breakfast may not be operated only to sell or provide beer and wine.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the bed and breakfast ends operations as a bed and breakfast:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the license is void; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the license holder shall return the license to the Board.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>This section may not be construed to apply to a permanent resident on the premises or to guests of the permanent resident.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>The license holder shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>maintain records of all catered events where alcoholic beverages are served; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>make the records required under item (1) of this subsection available on request to the Board, the Executive Director, or the Comptroller.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>The annual license fee is $300.</text>
  </level>
</section>
