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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="4-605" title_number="4" title_name="Local Licensing" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Revocation and Suspension of Local Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a local licensing board shall revoke a license if, after a hearing under § 4–603(b) of this subtitle, an activity listed in this section is found to have occurred on the licensed premises.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The license of a person may not be revoked under paragraph (1) of this subsection if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the person operates a theater, a concert hall, an art center, a museum, or a similar establishment that is primarily devoted to the arts or theatrical performances; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the performances express matters of serious literary, artistic, scientific, or political value.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An individual may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>be employed or used in the sale or service of alcoholic beverages in or on the licensed premises while the individual is unclothed or in attire, costume, or clothing so as to expose to view any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola or any portion of the pubic hair, anus, cleft of the buttocks, vulva, or genitals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>be employed or act as a hostess or act in a similar capacity to mingle with the patrons while the hostess or individual acting in a similar capacity is unclothed or in attire, costume, or clothing described in item (1) of this subsection;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>encourage or allow an individual on the licensed premises to caress or fondle the breasts, buttocks, anus, or genitals of another individual; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>allow an employee or other individual to wear or use a device or covering exposed to view that simulates any portion of the breast, genitals, anus, or pubic hair.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>With respect to entertainment provided, a person may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>allow an individual to perform an act of or act that simulates:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, or a sexual act that is prohibited by law;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the caressing or fondling of the breast, buttocks, anus, or genitals; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the display of the pubic hair, anus, vulva, or genitals;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>subject to item (1) of this subsection, allow an entertainer whose breasts or buttocks are exposed to perform closer than 6 feet from the nearest patron; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>allow an individual to use an artificial device or inanimate object to depict, perform, or simulate an activity prohibited under item (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person may not show a motion picture, a still picture, an electronic reproduction, or other visual reproduction depicting:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an act or a simulated act of sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, or a sexual act that is prohibited by law;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an individual being caressed or fondled on the breast, buttocks, anus, or genitals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a scene in which an individual displays the vulva, anus, or genitals; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a scene in which an artificial device or inanimate object is used to depict, or a drawing is used to portray, a prohibited act described in this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A person may not allow an individual to remain in or on the licensed premises who exposes to public view any portion of the individual’s genitals or anus.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>This section does not allow any conduct or form of attire prohibited by any other statute, ordinance, rule, or regulation.</text>
  </level>
</section>
