# Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis (GAB)

## Title 33. Worcester County

### Subtitle 15. Issuance or Denial of Licenses

#### Section 33-1501

(a) 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:

  (1) Sec.?4-202?("Authority of local licensing boards");

  (2) Sec.?4-205?("Chain store, supermarket, or discount house");

  (3) Sec.?4-206?("Limitations on retail sales floor space");

  (4) Sec.?4-207?("Licenses issued to minors");

  (5) Sec.?4-209?("Hearing");

  (6) Sec.?4-210?("Approval or denial of license application");

  (7) Sec.?4-211?("License forms; effective date; expiration");

  (8) Sec.?4-213?("Replacement licenses"); and

  (9) Sec.?4-214?("Waiting periods after denial of license applications").

(b) The following sections of Title 4, Subtitle 2 ("Issuance or Denial of Local Licenses") of Division I of this article apply in the county:

  (1) Sec.?4-203?("Prohibition against issuing multiple licenses to individual or for use of entity"), subject to Subtitle 13, Part III and Subtitle 16, Part II of this title;

  (2) Sec.?4-204?("Prohibition against issuing multiple licenses for same premises"), subject to Subtitle 13, Part III of this title;

  (3) Sec.?4-208?("Notice of license application required"), subject to Sec. 33-1502 of this subtitle; and

  (4) Sec.?4-212?("License not property"), subject to Sec. 33-1503 of this subtitle.

#### Section 33-1502

Notice of a license application shall be published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper published in the municipality in which or nearest to which the location described in the application is situated.

#### Section 33-1503

A license is not subject to:

(1) a writ of execution by a judgment creditor of a license holder; or

(2) a distraint for rent.

#### Section 33-1504

(a) If an applicant applies for a license to sell alcoholic beverages in a building that is incomplete, or in a building or portion of a building that is to be remodeled or renovated, the Board may give tentative approval of the application on the basis of the building plans and specifications that accompany the application.

(b) The Board may give final approval of the license application for which it had given tentative approval on completion of the construction or the remodeling or renovation of the building in accordance with the building plans submitted by the applicant.

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Md. Code Ann., Alco. Bev. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)