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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="16-302" title_number="16" title_name="Cigarettes" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="License to Sell Cigarettes at Retail in Counties">
  <level label="a">
    <text>For each county license, an applicant shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>submit an application to the clerk; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pay to the clerk a license fee of $300.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>From each license fee collected under subsection (a) of this section, the clerk shall distribute:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$25 to the Executive Director;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>in Montgomery County, $275 to the county to be used to enforce existing laws banning the sale or distribution of tobacco, tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices, as defined in § 16.7–101 of this article, to individuals under the age of 21 years; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>in all other counties, $275 to the Maryland Department of Health to be used by the Department or its designee to enforce existing laws prohibiting the sale or distribution of tobacco, tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices, as defined in § 16.7–101 of this article, to individuals under the age of 21 years.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Funds distributed under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection may not be used to supplant existing funding for the enforcement of laws banning the sale or distribution of tobacco or tobacco products to individuals under the age of 21 years.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In Baltimore City, in addition to the requirements under subsection (a) of this section, an applicant for an initial or renewal county license shall provide to the clerk a licensure authorization issued under § 16–302.1 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
