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<subtitle article="gab" title_number="33" subtitle_number="27" title_name="Worcester County" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="33-2701" title_number="33" title_name="Worcester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <level label="a">
      <text>The following sections of Title 6, Subtitle 3 (“Prohibited Acts”) of Division I of this article apply in the county without exception or variation:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>§ 6–305 (“Proof of age for sale of alcoholic beverages”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>§ 6–306 (“Defense to prosecution for sale to underage individual”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>§ 6–307 (“Selling or providing alcoholic beverages to intoxicated individual”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>§ 6–308 (“Allowing on–premises consumption of alcoholic beverages not purchased from license holder”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="5">
        <text>§ 6–309 (“Allowing on–premises consumption or possession of alcoholic beverages by individual under the age of 21 years”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="6">
        <text>§ 6–310 (“Providing free food”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="7">
        <text>§ 6–311 (“Restrictions on purchases and sales by retail dealer”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="8">
        <text>§ 6–312 (“Beverage misrepresentation”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="9">
        <text>§ 6–313 (“Tampering with alcoholic beverage container”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="10">
        <text>§ 6–314 (“Sale of alcoholic beverage container with detachable metal tab”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="11">
        <text>§ 6–315 (“Alcoholic beverage in container without regular label presumed illicit”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="12">
        <text>§ 6–316 (“Maximum alcohol content”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="13">
        <text>§ 6–317 (“Multiple serving purchase required”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="14">
        <text>§ 6–319 (“On–premises consumption of alcoholic beverages not purchased from license holder”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="15">
        <text>§ 6–320 (“Disorderly intoxication”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="16">
        <text>§ 6–321 (“Consumption of alcoholic beverages in public”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="17">
        <text>§ 6–323 (“Possession or use of Alcohol Without Liquid machine”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="18">
        <text>§ 6–326 (“Sale of alcoholic beverages in powder or crystalline form prohibited”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="19">
        <text>§ 6–327 (“Unlicensed out–of–state sale of alcoholic beverages”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="20">
        <text>§ 6–328 (“Tax evasion”);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="21">
        <text>§ 6–329 (“Destruction of evidence”); and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="22">
        <text>§ 6–330 (“Perjury”).</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>Section 6–322 (“Possession of open container”) of Division I of this article does not apply in the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>Section 6–304 (“Selling or providing alcoholic beverages to individual under the age of 21 years”) of Division I of this article applies in the county, subject to § 33–2702 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="33-2702" title_number="33" title_name="Worcester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A license holder or an employee of a license holder who is charged with a violation of § 6–304 of this article may be proceeded against on a charging document issued by the District Court for the county or by an indictment returned by the grand jury of the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A license holder or an employee of a license holder may not be found guilty of a violation of § 6–304 of this article if the license holder or employee establishes to the satisfaction of the finder of fact that the license holder or employee used due caution to establish that the individual was not under the age of 21 years.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="33-2703" title_number="33" title_name="Worcester County" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts">
    <level label="a">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a license holder may not allow an individual who is not a consumer to loiter on the premises for which the license is issued.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A restaurant may serve a meal without an alcoholic beverage to an individual.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>