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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="33-1102" title_number="33" title_name="Worcester County" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Additional License Privileges">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Commission” means the Ocean City Convention Hall Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Organization” includes the following types of nonprofit organizations:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>armed services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>charitable;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>civic;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>employees;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>firefighters;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>fraternal;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>governmental–support;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>hospital;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>labor;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>patriotic;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>political;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xii">
        <text>professional;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiii">
        <text>religious;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiv">
        <text>trade; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xv">
        <text>war veterans.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>With the approval of the Commission, the Board may allow the members and guests of an organization to bring their own alcoholic beverages onto the premises of the Ocean City Convention Hall without first obtaining a license if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the alcoholic beverages are not sold; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the consumption of the alcoholic beverages is restricted to the premises.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>With the approval of the Commission, the Board may allow the Mayor and City Council of Ocean City or their designee to sponsor a function at which patrons are allowed to bring their own alcoholic beverages onto the premises of the Ocean City Convention Hall without first obtaining a license if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the alcoholic beverages are not sold; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the consumption of the alcoholic beverages is on the premises only.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
