Md. Code Ann., Alc. Bev. & Cannabis § 11-902
Class B beer, wine, and liquor license
Effective Jul 1, 2020Added by Acts 2016, c. 41, § 2, eff. July 1, 2016. Amended by Acts 2017, c. 99, § 1, eff. July 1, 2017; Acts 2020, c. 503, § 1, eff. July 1, 2020.State of Maryland
- (a) There is a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license.
(b) The Board may issue the license for use by a restaurant that:
- (1) has ample space and accommodations for regularly preparing, selling, and serving hot meals to the public at least twice daily;
- (2) is equipped with a public dining room with sufficient tables, chairs, cutlery, and glassware to serve the meals prepared in the restaurant;
- (3) is equipped with a kitchen that has complete facilities and utensils for preparing and serving hot and cold meals to the public; and
- (4) employs a sufficient number of cooks and wait staff to serve the number of customers accommodated in the dining room.
- (c) The license authorizes the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail at the place described in the license, for on- or off-premises consumption.
- (d) Before each renewal of the license, the license holder shall attest in a sworn statement that the gross receipts from food sales for the 12-month period immediately preceding the application for renewal were at least equal to 51% of the gross receipts from the sale of food and alcoholic beverages sold for on-premises consumption.
- (e) The annual fee for the license is $1,080.
Added by Acts 2016, c. 41, § 2, eff. July 1, 2016. Amended by Acts 2017, c. 99, § 1, eff. July 1, 2017; Acts 2020, c. 503, § 1, eff. July 1, 2020.