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ARTICLE 39.

FISH AND FISHERIES.

PART 1.
General Provisions.

1. Definitions.

2. Application of general and local
laws.

3. Duties of conservation commissioner.

4. Duties of officers of conservation
department

5. Arrest upon information.

6. Warrant for unknown offender.

7. Procedure upon seizure.

8. Condemnation and sale.

9. Disposition of fines and proceeds

of property sold.
10- Jurisdiction of justices or court.

11. Appeal from judgments of Justices
of the peace.

12. Obstruction to passage of fish.

13. Fish ladders.

14. Pollution prohibited; penalty.

15. Dynamiting and poisoning streams;
penalty.

16. Threshing streams.

17. Removal of fish without permission;
penalty.

18. Anchored boats.

19. Vessels sailing through seines.

20. Obstruction to fishery.

21. Riparian rights.

22. Penalties.

23. Penalty for violating Sec. 13.

PART 2.
Tidal Waters.

24. Who may fish.

25. Method of fishing.

26. Regulation of nets and seines.

27. Purse or buck nets.

Further Regulations in County Waters.

28. Anne Arundel County.

29. Baltimore County.

30. Caroline County.

31. Cecil County.

32. Charles County.

33. Dorchester County.

34. Garrett County.

35. Harford County.

36. Kent County.

37. Queen Anne's County.

38. St. Mary's County.

39. Somerset County.

40. Talbot County.

41. Wicomico County.

42. Worcester County.

Nets and Seines.

43. Sizes of mesh.

44. Removal of stakes and nets.

45. Emptying seines.

46. Chesapeake Bay.

47. Head of bay.

48. Patuxent River.

49. Severn River.

50. Choptank River.

Sizes of Commercial Fish.

51. Sizes of fish.

The following decisions refer to the sections printed in dark type of art. 39 as it
stood prior to the act 1929, ch. 471:

19. This section referred to in discussing meaning of term "citizen''—see notes to
art. 25, sec. 143. Fitzwater v. Hydro-Elec. Corp., 149 Md. 466.

68. This section referred to in construing local law for Dorchester County giving
riparian owners certain fishing rights; law constitutional Dean v. Slacum, 149 Md
581.

89. Compact of 1785 does not require concurrence of Virginia to render act 1924,
ch. 340. effective. Equity will not grant injunction to prevent violation of statute
Middlekauff v. Le Compte, 149 Md. 622.