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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="9-1404" title_number="9" title_name="Allegany County" subtitle_number="14" subtitle_name="Applications for Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>With the license application, the applicant shall submit a petition signed by at least 10 residents, voters, or property owners who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>have not signed any other petition for a license; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>live or own property in the vicinity of the place for which the license application is made.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The petition shall state the full name, residence, or property owned of each person who signs the petition.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Each person who signs the petition shall certify that the person:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>has been acquainted with the applicant for more than 1 year before the date that license application is made;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has good reason to believe that all the statements in the petition are true; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>requests that the petition be approved and that the license be issued.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The applicant shall verify the petition by affidavit made before a notary or the clerk of the circuit court.</text>
  </level>
</section>
