WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 6

(f) A person may not shoot at any [specie] SPECIES of wildlife on, from, or
across any paved public highway or the shoulder of the highway. A person may not
shoot from any public highway, whether paved or unpaved, in Kent County and Queen
Anne's County or shoot from any public road, whether paved or unpaved, within the
boundaries of the Hanover municipal waterworks property in Carroll County.

(h) A person may not dig in or drive a motor vehicle on any cleared field while
hunting, except with the permission of the owner, tenant, or other person in charge of
the land, or park or leave standing any motor vehicle so that [it] THE MOTOR
VEHICLE blocks the means of ingress or egress to any person's property, cattle ways,
or fields.

(i) [No person may] A PERSON MAY NOT carry a firearm to hunt any wild
bird, mammal, amphibian, or reptile while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol
or any narcotic drug.

(j) (2) Any person who violates provisions of this subsection is guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction is subject to a fine of not more than $1, 000 or
imprisonment for not more than [six] 6 months or both, with costs imposed in the
discretion of the court.

(k) A person may not set any trap, except box traps for rabbits, net, or snare of
any description to take any game birds or mammals, except fur-bearing mammals. A
trap, net, or snare found in the possession of any person shall be prima facie evidence
that the device was used to violate this subsection. A law enforcement officer of the
State shall confiscate and destroy the device. A person may not place traps of any
description on another person's property without [his] THE OTHER PERSON'S
written permission.

(o) (2) This subsection does not apply to:

(i) Traps set on farmland by the owner of the farmland, by [his]
THE OWNER'S agent or tenant, [his] OWNER'S lessee, or by any member of [his]
OWNER'S OR TENANT'S immediate family who resides on the farmland; or

(ii) Traps set by an authorized agent of the Maryland Forest, Park
and Wildlife Service who exercises [his] THE AGENT'S duties for wildlife control
under guidelines established by the Department.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Incorrect word usage in § 10-410(f) of the Natural Resources
Article.

Occurred: Ch. 4, Acts of 1973, First Special Session.
10-411.

(a) Except as otherwise provided, a person may not come to hunt upon any
pretense whatever on lands owned by another person without the permission of the
landowner[, his] OR THE LANDOWNER'S agent[,] or lessee. Any person hunting on

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