Maryland Alcoholic Beverages Section 14-204

      (a)      The Comptroller, local licensing boards, and license issuing authorities shall severally keep an accurate record of every license issued or approved by them, respectively, under this article. The Comptroller and boards shall also keep an accurate record of all revocations, suspensions and cancellations of licenses and of all restrictions imposed upon any license, with a brief notation as to the cause for such action, and the boards shall in each case, forthwith report the same to the Comptroller. Such records shall be open to inspection at the respective offices of the Comptroller, board, or license issuing authority during regular business hours, by any person.

      (b)      The records of licenses which are required to be maintained by subsection (a) of this section, and any indices or dockets created pursuant thereto, shall be retained for a period of three (3) years following the date of the last record entry therein and until all audit requirements have been complied with, and thereafter may be destroyed after compliance with the provisions of Title 10, Subtitle 6, Part V of the State Government Article.