2010 Maryland Code
STATE GOVERNMENT
TITLE 20 - HUMAN RELATIONS
Subtitle 3 - Discrimination in Places of Public Accommodation
Section 20-301 - "Place of public accommodation" defined.

§ 20-301. "Place of public accommodation" defined.
 

In this subtitle, "place of public accommodation" means: 

(1) an inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment that provides lodging to transient guests; 

(2) a restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling food or alcoholic beverages for consumption on or off the premises, including a facility located on the premises of a retail establishment or gasoline station; 

(3) a motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium, or other place of exhibition or entertainment; 

(4) a retail establishment that: 

(i) is operated by a public or private entity; and 

(ii) offers goods, services, entertainment, recreation, or transportation; and 

(5) an establishment: 

(i) 1. that is physically located within the premises of any other establishment covered by this subtitle; or 

2. within the premises of which any other establishment covered by this subtitle is physically located; and 

(ii) that holds itself out as serving patrons of the covered establishment. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 49B, § 5(d)(1) first clause, (2)-(4), (e)(1); 2009, ch. 120, § 2.]