Board of Liquor License Commissioners v. Hollywood Productions, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Board did not have “implied authority to restrict the licensee’s hours of Sunday operation”
• noting that an exception exists, however, where the licensee “consents and agrees to a reasonable restriction”
• noting that the “General Assembly’s detailed regulation of the alcoholic beverages industry suggests that where [the General Assembly] intends a liquor board to have a particular enforcement mechanism at its disposal, it expressly provides for it by statute.”
• overruling Bd. of Liquor License Comm'rs v. Leone, 249 Md. 263, 239 A.2d 82 (1968), which stated that a county liquor license board does not have standing to appeal the reversal of its decision
• “Where the legislature has properly and broadly delegated regulatory authority to an agency, we have quite liberally construed the scope of the agency’s implied powers to act in that area.”
• “the Liquor Board has rule making, investigatory, and prosecutori al authority”

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