1. (a) This section does not apply in Allegany and Washington counties.
2. (b) 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.

3. (c) However, a municipal corporation by ordinance may:

   1. (1) provide for the issuance of identification cards or tags to producers of country produce who sell the produce from a wagon at retail;
   2. (2) set a fee, not exceeding 50 cents for each producer, for the issuance of identification cards or tags; and
   3. (3) require producers to get and display identification cards or tags.

4. (d)

   1. (1) 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.
   2. (2) A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to a fine not exceeding $25.

Added as Business Regulation § 17-912 by Acts 1992, c. 4, § 2. Renumbered as Business Regulation § 17-911 by Acts 2022, c. 315, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 2022.