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State law prohibits open containers with any amount of alcohol within the passenger area of a motor vehicle. [7] Passengers of a vehicle are similarly prohibited from consuming alcohol in the passenger area, but the law provides exceptions for non-drivers in the back of hired vehicles such as taxis, limousines, and buses, as well as in the living areas of motor homes.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Bureau is a Maryland state government agency responsible for monitoring the manufacture, storage, transportation, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and tobacco. collecting state taxes on beer, wine, distilled spirits, cigarettes and other tobacco products. issuing licenses and permits.
As of July 2011, the sales tax for purchasing alcohol in Maryland is 9 percent. [1] According to former Governor Martin O'Malley, the tax increase is intended to raise $85 million for state programs. Businesses that operate in the state of Maryland have certain requirements if they serve alcohol.
Sales of any type of alcohol are legal at any store that has an off-premises liquor license, including but not limited to convenience stores and grocery stores. Bars may sell closed containers of alcohol for consumption off the premises. Drive-through liquor stores are allowed. Everclear Grain Alcohol Proof 190 (95% alcohol) is legal.
A Maryland law passed in 1978 prohibited chain and discount stores from having alcohol licenses. The same law said that only a Maryland resident could have an alcohol license and that each person could only have one alcohol license. [9] [10] The chain-store law was enacted in the early 1980s after a push from small, local retail businesses.
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Four grocery chain stores in the county have grandfathered alcohol licenses. [34] The regulatory agency is Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS). Dorchester County was an alcohol control county until 2008, when the County Council voted to permanently close the county-owned liquor dispensaries, with subsequent change in the state law ...