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VETOES

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources

Section 5-1203(h)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Natural Resources

5-1203.

(a) In order to assure that an increasing population,
accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization,
does not occupy and modify all, areas within the State, leaving no
lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural
condition, it is the policy of the General Assembly to secure for
the people of present and future generations the benefits of an
enduring resource of State wildlands. For this purpose there is
established a State wildlands preservation system composed of
areas in the State designated by the General Assembly as
"wildland areas". The wildland areas shall be administered for
the use and enjoyment of the people of Maryland in a manner that
will leave them unimpaired for the future use and enjoyment as
wildlands, to provide for their protection, preservation of their
wildland character, and for gathering and dissemination of
information regarding their use and enjoyment as wildlands. A
State land may not be designated as "wildland areas" except as
provided for in this section or by a subsequent act.

(H) (1) PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (A) OF
THIS SECTION, THAT PROPERTY IN ALLEGANY COUNTY CONTAINING
APPROXIMATELY 586 ACRES AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS IS A TYPE II III
STATE WILDLAND AND SHALL BE NAMED "ROCKY GAP WILDLAND":

BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE     OLD HANCOCK

ROAD AND ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE PARK ROAD TO ROCKY  GAP DAM; THEN

WITH THE OUTLINE OF THE WILDLAND IN A CLOCKWISE  DIRECTION THE
FOLLOWING APPROXIMATE BEARINGS AND DISTANCES.

LEAVING THE BEGINNING POINT AND WITH THE NORTH SIDE OF THE
OLD HANCOCK ROAD SOUTHWESTERLY 3,000 FEET TO THE ROCKY GAP ROAD.
THEN WITH THE NORTH SIDE OF THE LATTER ROAD, NORTHWESTERLY 1,500
FEET, THEN NORTHERLY 1,500 FEET, THEN NORTHWESTERLY 650 FEET TO
THE PARK BOUNDARY.