2688 ARTICLE 72

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1912, sec. 14. 1904, sec. 13. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 12.

16. It shall be the duty of general measurers and inspectors of oysters
and other officers of the police force to supervise the operation of this
article and diligently to aid in the enforcement of its provisions, and they
or any of them are authorized and empowered to enter into any house or
boat or any other place where oysters may be dumped or stored to inspect
the same at any time; and any packer, commission man or boatman who
shall refuse to open his house or boat where oysters may be dumped or
stored for the inspection thereof by the officer whose duty it shall be to
inspect the same, and any person who shall conspire or agree with any
other person to evade any of the provisions of this article or who shall con-
nive at or participate in such violation shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and subject to the penalties prescribed in section 15 of this article.
See notes to secs. 8 and 9.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 17. 1912, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 14. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 13.

17. Any general measurer or inspector of oysters in this State who
shall knowingly permit any evasion or violation of this article to take
place without causing the arrest of the offender shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor and, upon conviction of the same, shall be dismissed from the
service and be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hun-
dred dollars, in the discretion of court or justice of the peace.
See notes to secs. 8 and 9.

Time for Taking Oysters.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 18. 1912, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 15. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 14. 1900, ch. 380.
1927, ch. 463, sec. 18. 1936 (Sp. Sess.), ch. 104.

18. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take or catch
oysters or have oysters in his or their possession between the fifteenth day
of April and the first day of September in each and every year; provided,
that oysters caught before the fifteenth day of April may be disposed of at
any time before the twentieth day of April; nor shall it be construed to
prevent any person from taking oysters at any time from his private
beds within the State for private use or transplanting or cultivating but
not for sale; provided, however, that, it shall be lawful to take oysters from
the waters of Worcester County at any time by the use of hand scrapes,
any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, and to ship the same in the
shell, and no license fee shall be charged therefor.
See secs. 20, 56 and 58.

An Code, 1924, sec. 19. 1912, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 16. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 15. 1922,

ch. 519, sec. 17.

19. Any person found guilty of violating any provisions of the above
section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not less
than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars in the discretion of
the court or justice of the peace by which such person shall be tried, or be
imprisoned in the county or city jail or in the House of Correction for not
less than one month nor more than twelve months, in the discretion of
such judge or justice of the peace.