HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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digging, constructing, installing, abandoning, by permanent
disconnection altering, or repairing of any well]:

(1)  MAKING, ALTERING, REPAIRING, OR SEALING A
WELL; OR

(2)  INSTALLING, ALTERING, REPAIRING, OR
DISCONNECTING WELL SYSTEM EQUIPMENT.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Ch. ____, Acts of 1981, which enacted

Titles 20 and 21 of the Health Occupations
Article, also amended this section to conform the
definitions of this section to similar
definitions in Title 21 of the Health Occupations
Article.

Former subsections (d), (f), (g), (h), and (i) of
this section were renumbered to be subsections
(c), (d), (e), (f), and (g), respectively.

In subsection (g) of this section, the former
terms used to describe the activities of a well
driller are conformed to the description of the
same activities in the definition of "practice
well drilling" in § 21-101 of the Health
Occupations Article.

Former subsections (c) and (e) of this section,
which defined "aquifer" and "business of well
drilling", respectively, are deleted as
unnecessary.

The only other changes are in style.

8-603.

[A licensed well driller may not undertake any
operation to bore, core, dig, or construct a well for any
owner who is required to obtain a permit for production and
appropriation of waters from a well under the provisions of
this title until the owner has obtained the permit from the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. A] AN
APPROPRIATION OR USE permit UNDER § 8-802 OF THIS TITLE may
not be refused for domestic use OF A WELL on a farm.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Ch. ____, Acts of 1981, which enacted

Titles 20 and 21 of the Health Occupations
Article, also amended this section by
transferring to Title 20 the former first
sentence of the section, which prohibited a
licensed well driller from drilling a well until
the well driller obtained a permit for
appropriation or use from the Department of
Natural Resources.

The former second sentence of this section is
revised to be the only provision of this section.