§ 5-103. Legislative policy
West's Annotated Code of MarylandAlcoholic Beverages and CannabisEffective: July 1, 2016
Effective: July 1, 2016
MD Code, Alcoholic Beverages, § 5-103
Formerly cited as MD CODE, Art. 2B, § 17-101
§ 5-103. Legislative policy
(a) It is the policy of the State that:
(2) temperance and obedience to the laws that control the distribution and ultimate sale of beer is promoted by legislation that encourages beer distributors to make investments in their facilities to serve retail license holders by protecting them against the termination of beer distributorships, or other acts described in this subtitle, without good cause for the termination or other acts.
(b) It is necessary to accomplish this policy to eliminate the undue stimulation of sales of beer in the State by beer manufacturers that induce or coerce, or attempt to induce or coerce, beer distributors to act detrimentally to the orderly and lawful distribution of beer by:
(c) The General Assembly further recognizes the distinction between the nature of the distribution of beer and other alcoholic beverages in that distributors of alcoholic beverages other than beer are franchised by manufacturers to distribute many brands of various kinds of alcoholic beverages and are not as vulnerable to the economic pressures of the manufacturers as are beer distributors, which traditionally handle mainly one, two, or three brands of beer in their distributorships.
Credits
Added by Acts 2016, c. 41, § 2, eff. July 1, 2016.
MD Code, Alcoholic Beverages, § 5-103, MD AL BEV § 5-103
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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