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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="17-203" title_number="17" title_name="Miscellaneous State Business Licenses" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Administration and Enforcement">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a Calvert County peddler license or magazine seller license issued under Subtitle 9 of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a junk dealer or scrap metal processor license or agent license issued under Subtitle 10 of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a storage warehouse license issued under Subtitle 12 of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a promoter license issued under Subtitle 14 of this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a vending machine license issued under Subtitle 19 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as provided in subsections (a) and (c) of this section or otherwise in this title, each clerk shall account for and distribute the license fees received for licenses issued under this title as follows:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the clerk shall pay into the General Fund of the State:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the percentage of license fees authorized under § 2–213 of the Courts Article; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>3% of license fees to defray the expenses of the State License Bureau; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the clerk shall distribute the remaining license fees:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to the municipal corporation where the licensed business or activity is located, if the licensed business or activity is located in a municipal corporation; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>to the county where the licensed business or activity is located, if the licensed business or activity is not located in a municipal corporation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A clerk shall account for and pay into the General Fund of the State the entire fee received for a trader’s license issued in a county or municipal corporation that selects a uniform license fee under § 17–1806 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The clerk shall pay all issuance fees into the General Fund of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>For purposes of this subsection, per capita revenue shall be computed by using the population figures from the later of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the most recent federal census; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an official local census.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The clerk may not distribute license fees to a county or municipal corporation unless the county or municipal corporation:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>levies, in its current fiscal year, taxes sufficient to collect at least $1.00 per capita in revenue; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>certifies to the Comptroller a copy of the levy.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Comptroller shall notify the clerk if a county or municipality has not certified a copy of the levy as required under paragraph (2) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The clerk shall pay into the General Fund of the State any money that is not distributed at the end of the fiscal year of a county or municipal corporation because the county or municipal corporation failed to make the levy and certification required by paragraph (2) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
