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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="17-911" title_number="17" title_name="Miscellaneous State Business Licenses" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Peddlers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section does not apply in Allegany and Washington counties.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A municipal corporation may not require a local license or impose a local fee or tax to sell fresh fruits, vegetables, or other country produce from a wagon at retail if the seller is the producer.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>However, a municipal corporation by ordinance may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>provide for the issuance of identification cards or tags to producers of country produce who sell the produce from a wagon at retail;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>set a fee, not exceeding 50 cents for each producer, for the issuance of identification cards or tags; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>require producers to get and display identification cards or tags.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person who is not the producer may not sell or offer to sell any fresh fruits, vegetables, or other country produce from a wagon at retail in a municipal corporation that requires a local license or imposes a local fee or tax to do so without getting the license or paying the fee or tax.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to a fine not exceeding $25.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
