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The Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control was officially established on July 1, 1951. Montgomery County's Liquor Control Board was created under the terms of Section 159 of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Maryland. The Board of License Commissioners, which had been created on December 5, 1933, became a completely separate entity.
It is illegal under state law [1] for a person under the age of 21 to possess or consume an alcoholic beverage, but the law contains several exceptions: . Underage individuals who are employees of businesses that hold a valid state-issued liquor license may possess (but not consume) alcohol in the course of their job during regular business hours.
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 ...
The vote is set for Monday night at courthouse, which requires a two-thirds majority for the referendum to be added to the Nov. 8 election ballot.
Until 1964, only three restaurants in the county had liquor licenses to serve liquor by the drink. [75] The county stopped issuing liquor licenses to all other restaurants under a law that had existed since Prohibition. [76] Following a voter referendum, [77] restaurants and bars could apply for county permits to sell liquor by the drink. [76]
In the counties of Montgomery, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester sale of alcoholic beverages are controlled directly by the county Liquor Control Boards, there are exceptions in Montgomery where some liquors are still sold in grocery store due to being grandfathered before the change of the law.
Montgomery County permits both; Monroe County permits both; Moore County only allows the sampling and the purchase of liquor on the premises of Jack Daniel's Distillery; Morgan County permits liquor-by-the drink in Wartburg [9] (2024 referendum) Obion County liquor-by-the-drink ONLY; Overton County liquor-by-the-drink ONLY; Perry County Retail ...
The Anchor Inn was one of the first six establishments to apply for and receive a liquor license in Montgomery County in December 1964. The county had just recently repealed by referendum a prohibition era law which allowed liquor to only be sold at three restaurants in the county. [6]