HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 624

(Senate Bill 590)

AN ACT concerning

Natural Resources Wildland and Open Areas - Belt Woods Wildland

FOR the purpose of designating 109 acres as the "Belt Woods
Wildland", a Type II 2 wildland, in Prince George's County;
and generally relating to wildland area in the State.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 5-1203(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Natural  Resources

Section 5-1203(k)

Annotated Code of   Maryland

(1983 Replacement  Volume and 1985 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.

(K) UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION,
THAT PROPERTY IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY