Q: How to get a liquor license for a party bus?
What statutes and licenses allow for the consumption of alcohol on a party bus and/or mobile bar?
A: Each county and the City of Balitomore has its own liquor board license regulations for sale of liquor within their jurisdictions, so you will need to check with each jurisdiction in which you intend to operate. You will have to check with each liquor license board whether a license is required to specifically permit the commercial sale of alcohol to paying passengers, and service bars, in a mobile vehicle operating on the public roads. Maryland's transportation laws prohibit open consumption of alcohol and open containers of alcohol in moving vehicles, by passengers as well as drivers, but the law grants an exception to commercial vehicles for hire like buses and limousines that serve or allow consumption of alcohol to the passengers. I am familiar with "bar crawl" tour buses, that drive paying passengers from bar to bar where the customers unload at each bar, drink for a while, then travel to the next bar on the route. That type of commercial enterprise is allowed, but again, you would have to check in each local jurisdiction for any restrictions that may apply.
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