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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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3062 ARTICLE 99.

An. Code, sec. 28 K. 1916, ch. 385, sec. 28L.

40. All game wardens, sheriffs, constables or other officers shall have
the duty of enforcing the provisions of Sections 29-40.1

An. Code, sec. 29. 1904, sec. 22. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15J.

41. No person shall at any time, in this State shoot at or kill any of the
birds or game animals permitted to be shot or killed under this sub-title,
with any other kind of gun than such as is habitually raised at arm's length
from the shoulder, under a penalty of not less than five ($5) dollars nor
more than twenty-five ($25) dollars for every such bird or game animal so
shot at or killed, and under a further penalty of not less than fifty ($50)
dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars for each offense, and
every gun which is not so habitually fired from the shoulder, as aforesaid,
shall be liable to seizure by any State or county officer authorized to execute
warrants and the forfeiture and destruction by any justice of the peace
before whom such gun shall be produced.

An. Code, sec. 30. 1904, sec. 23. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15K.

42. No person shall in this State at any time shoot at or in any manner
kill or catch, in the night time, any of the birds mentioned in the preceding
sections of this sub-title under a penalty of not less than one ($1) dollar,
nor more than twenty-five ($25) dollars for each bird so killed or caught;
and if at the trial it shall be proved that the person charged with shooting
at. or killing said birds in the night time was at or about the place where
the shot was fired, and that he had a gun in his possession on the night in
question, in the vicinity where such shooting occurred, either prior to or
at the time of or after the shooting, such fact shall be deemed prima facie
evidence of his having violated the provisions of this section.

An. Code, sec. 31. 1904, sec. 24. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15L.

43. No person shall in this State at any time use or have in his posses-
sion, or sell or dispose of in any manner any big or swivel gun, with the
intent or for the purpose of shooting at or killing wild ducks, wild geese,
wild swan, wild brant or other water-fowl, under a penalty of not less
than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars for
each offense, and the possession or sale or disposition by any person of any
such big or swivel gun in this State shall be deemed prima facie evidence
that the same is possessed or sold, or disposed of with the intent, and for the
purpose of shooting at or killing such birds in this State, and every gun
shall be deemed a big gun, for the purpose of this law, which is not
habitually raised at arm's length and fired from the shoulder.

An. Code, sec. 32. 1904, sec. 25. 1898, ch. 206, sec. 15M.

44. No person shall at any time in this State shoot at or do any act or
thing whatsoever with the intent or purpose of frightening or driving wild
ducks, wild geese, wild swan, wild brant or other water fowl of any kind
from their feeding or roosting grounds, under a penalty of not less than

1 Sec. 28M of ch. 385 of 1916 repeals all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with said act.

 

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