The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-05-01
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS
FOR CARROLL COUNTY, PASSED AT THE
JANUARY SESSION, 1908.
Published by Authority Of the County
Commissioners Of Carroll County.
INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
CHAPTER 252.

County," by adding twenty new Sec
tons thereto to follow after Sec. 81
of said Article T. under the new sub
title of Intoxicating Liquors, to
be designated as Sec. 54A to Sec.
! SAT Cloth inclusive) to regulate the
| sale and the granting of licenses for
the sale of spirituous and fermented
LIQUORS in Carroll County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, that Ar
| ticle Z, of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title Carroll County," be and
the same is hereby amended by adding
| twenty new sections thereto under the
new subtitle of Intoxicating LID
uors," to follow after Sec. "a, to be
designated Sec. "a A to Sec. 81 T,
both inclusive and to read as follows:
intoxicating Liquors.
Sec. 81 A. No person shall here
after sell, offer, or keep for sale, in
Carroll county, State of Maryland, any
spirituous or fermented liquors of any
kind whatsoever without having pre-
viously obtained license therefor as
hereinafter provided but this act shall
not apply to a sale or sales made by
any person under provision of law
requiring him to sell personal prop
erty, or to a sale of cider or native
wines by the maker thereof, and not
suffered to be drunk on his premises.
Sec. 81 B. All licenses to sell spir-
ituous and fermented liquors shall ex-
pire on the first day of May next en-
suing the date of their issue, and shall
be issued for twelve or any less num-
beE of months, but for no fractional
part of a month.
Sec. "a G.. No license shall be is
sued to any person or persons to sell
spirituous or fermented liquors in
| Carroll county, aforesaid, until he or
they shall comply with the follow
| ing conditions, viz: q petition shall be
! filed by him or them on or before the
1st day of the month preceding the
month said license is to begin with
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said
| county, addressed to said Clerk, re-
questing that such license be issued
and said Clerk shall thereupon cause
to be published for two successive
weeks in newspaper published in
said County prior to the 18th day OF
the month preceding the month said
! license is to begin, list of the
|
residence, and the proposed place OF
doing business under said license for
which said application is made, and
shall state in said notice that unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 18th day of said month
the license applied for will be issued ;
and at the time of filing said petition
two dollars shall be paid to said Clerk
! for the publication of said notice. In
said petition shall be stated:
| Cd The name or names and resi-
dence Of the applicant or applicants
age, place of birth, that he or they are
citizens of the United States, and if
naturalized citizen, when and where
naturalized, and how long he or they
have resided in said county.
(2) The particular place for which
the license is desired, designating the
same by street and number, if practi-
cable, and if not, by such other apt de-
scription as will definitely locate it.
60 The name of the owner or own
ers of the premises upon which the
business, if licensed, is to be carried
on, and the character of the holding
of the proposed licensee.
(4) Whether or not the applicant
or applicants or either of them, has
had a license for the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors revoked, and If so when
and for what offense; whether or not
the applicants or either of them have
been convicted of any crime within
two years preceding the filing of his
petition and, if so, for what offense;
and that no person (unless the appli'
can't whose license has been revoked
under the provisions of this Act, has
any interest in the business to be car
ried on under the license thereby ap-
piled for, nor will the applicant OF
applicants permit any such person Of
persons to acquire any such interest,"
during the existence of said license
60 That he or they will not sell
or allow to be sold in said house or or
said premises any spirituous or fer.
mented liquors on Sunday, or on cleo
ton day, nor will he or they knowingly
sell or allow to be sold any intoxicat
ing liquors to minors, or habitua
drunkards at any time, nor knowing
ly allow a minor to drink, loiter OF
loaf in said house, or on the premises
for which said license is asked;
CO. That he or they will not suffel
or permit gambling in said licensed
building or on or about it's premises
; keep or permit to he Kept bawdy
house in said house or on said prem
, Uses, nor suffer or permit the gathering
together in said houseor on said prem
Uses of women for lewd or immora
purposes
CD That said applicant or appli
cants has or have been resident OF
| residents of said county for more thar
! one year prior to the filing of sale
petition; or if said applicant or appli
cants has or have not been residen
or residents of said county for a
least one year, then an account of the
character of business he has or the,
have engaged in for the preceding two
years, the place or places where car
ried on, and whether or not during
said period of time he has or the!
have been convicted of any crime Of
misdemeanor, and if he has or the!
have, a certified copy of the proceed
, ings in such case shall be filed will
said petition.
80 That six reputable free holder:
above the age of twenty-five years whit
are bona fide residents of the neighbor
hood in which the business petitionei
; to be licensed is to be conducted an(
whose signatures are subscribed tt
said petition certify that he or they
are proper person or persons to con
duct said business and recommend
that the license applied for be issued.
90 That no person or persons 9th.
er than the petitioner or petitioners
has or shall have any interest in the
business for which the license is ap.
piled.
Sec. "a D. Every such petition shall
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