Montgomery County
Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) and the Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County
In short
Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) and the Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County issues 2 permits we publish for Montgomery County, last verified 2026-10-02. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty Salon and Barbershop Beer, Wine, and Liquor Licenseonly if it applies to you | Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) and the Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County | $100 a year | annual | 2026-10-02 |
| Class B Beer, Wine, and Liquor Licenseonly if it applies to you | Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) and the Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County | $2,500 a year | annual | 2026-10-02 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Beauty Salon and Barbershop Beer, Wine, and Liquor License
The Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County may issue this license, created by 2025 Md. Laws (HB1095) as Md. Alcoholic Beverages & Cannabis Art. §25-1002, to a holder of a beauty-salon permit issued under Bus. Occ. & Prof. Art. §5-501. It authorizes serving up to 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.7 ounces of liquor per customer during a cosmetology service, or at a permitted fundraising event, not later than 9 p.m.; it is not transferable between locations and requires alcohol-awareness training. The annual license fee is $100.00, confirmed verbatim in the enrolled Act's own text ('The annual license fee is $100.'), effective July 1, 2025. This is a Montgomery-County-only license directly relevant to salons and barbershops that want to offer a complimentary drink during a service, separate from any general ABS/Board of License Commissioners licensing that would otherwise apply only to restaurants or retail alcohol sellers.
Class B Beer, Wine, and Liquor License
A restaurant or hotel owner or operator attesting that food sales make up at least 40% of combined food-and-alcohol gross receipts applies to the Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County for this Class B beer, wine, and liquor license, which carries an annual fee of $2,500.00 per Md. Alcoholic Beverages & Cannabis Art. §25-902(G), confirmed directly in the enrolled text of 2024 Md. Laws Ch. 1021 (HB762), effective July 1, 2024, with no later session-law amendment to §25-902 changing this figure. The Board of License Commissioners and Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS, renamed from the Department of Liquor Control effective July 1, 2019) operate under a Montgomery-County-only subtitle of the Maryland Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Article rather than any chapter of the county's own Code. This is the only Montgomery County alcohol license fee figure stated here for the general restaurant/coffee-shop category; other license classes are outside its scope.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Montgomery County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
- Website
- montgomerycountymd.gov/abs
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- 2024 Md. Laws Ch. 1021 (HB762), enrolled text — Md. Alcoholic Beverages & Cannabis Art. §25-902(G), Class B license annual fee $2,500, effective July 1, 2024Maryland General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
- 2025 Md. Laws (HB1095), enrolled text — Md. Alcoholic Beverages & Cannabis Art. §25-1002(G), beauty salon and barbershop beer, wine, and liquor license, annual fee $100, effective July 1, 2025Maryland General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
- Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) — overview pageMontgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
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