Ch. 6 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Pursuant to § 10-205 OF THIS TITLE, the Department shall establish and
publish by April 25 each year the bag limits per day for game birds and mammals by
[rule or] regulation for the ensuing year. The bag limits for ducks, geese, brant,
railbirds, woodcock, mergansers, doves, and snipe may conform to the federal migratory
bird rules and regulations adopted annually by the Secretary of Interior of the United
States.

10-410.

(c) A person may not shoot at any species of wildlife from an automobile or
other vehicle or, except as provided in Article 27, [§ 36B(c) and § 36E] §§ 36B(C) AND
36E of the Code, possess in or on an automobile or other vehicle[,] a loaded handgun,
shotgun, or rifle containing any ammunition in the magazine or chamber. If this
subsection is violated by an occupant of a vehicle which has [two] 2 or more occupants
and it cannot be determined which occupant is the violator, the owner of the vehicle, if
present, shall be presumed to be responsible for the violation. In the absence of the
owner of the vehicle, the operator of the vehicle shall be presumed to be responsible for
the violation. Provisions of this subsection do not apply to a disabled person who
obtains a special permit pursuant to the provisions of § 10-307 OF THIS TITLE.

(d) (1) (I) For the purposes of this subsection, [an] "off-road vehicle" [is]
MEANS a motorized vehicle designed for or capable of cross-country travel on land,
water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain.

(II) [It] "OFF-ROAD VEHICLE" includes (but is not limited to]
four-wheel drive or low-pressure tire vehicles, automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and
related two-wheel vehicles, amphibious machines, ground-effect or air-cushion
vehicles, snowmobiles, boats, farm-type tractors, earth-moving or construction
equipment, lawn mowers, snowblowers, garden or lawn tractors, or golf carts.

(e) (1) A person[,] or [two] 2 or more persons together[,] may not hunt or
attempt to hunt at nighttime any species of wild bird or wild quadruped with a light,
including the headlights of any vehicle, and a person may not cast the rays of any
artificial light when the rays emanate from a vehicle on any woods, fields, orchards,
livestock, wild animals or birds, [dwellings] DWELLINGS, or buildings. The provisions
of this paragraph do not apply to the normal use of headlights of a vehicle travelling on
any public or private road in a normal manner, to any police, emergency or utility
company vehicle using spotlights in the performance of their duties, or to any farmer or
landowner on [his] THE FARMER'S OR LANDOWNER'S own or leased land using
artificial lights to check on [his] THE FARMER'S OR LANDOWNER'S land, crops,
[livestock] LIVESTOCK, or poultry. However, raccoons, fox, or opossum may be
hunted on foot at nighttime during open season with the use of a dog or light, or both.

(2) (i) Except in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Allegany,
Garrett, Howard, Kent, Caroline, Talbot, Dorchester, Queen Anne's, Cecil, Frederick,
St. Mary's, Somerset, Washington, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties, a person may
cast the rays of an artificial light from a vehicle on woods, fields, orchards, livestock,
wild [animals] ANIMALS, or WILD birds for the sole purpose of observing or
photographing wildlife until 9: 00 p. m.

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