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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="17-1404" title_number="17" title_name="Miscellaneous State Business Licenses" subtitle_number="14" subtitle_name="Promoters of Outdoor Musical Festivals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An applicant for a promoter license shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>pay to the clerk a license fee of $500; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>get a health permit from the health officer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An applicant for a health permit shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>post a bond in accordance with § 17–1405 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>establish adequate health facilities and sanitation in accordance with any regulations adopted by the Maryland Department of Health to govern outdoor musical festivals; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>show that the applicant has obtained approval of the local law enforcement unit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Approval of a local law enforcement unit under subsection (b)(3) of this section shall be based on the applicant’s ability to provide:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>adequate security for the safety of spectators and their property;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>adequate arrangements for the orderly flow of traffic to, at, and from the outdoor musical festival; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>adequate security for those persons who might reasonably be affected by the outdoor musical festival and for their property.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Paragraph (1)(iii) of this subsection does not apply in St. Mary’s County.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
