Ch. 6 LAWS OF MARYLAND

<2) [except a sink box, and] "GUNNING RIG" includes a body booting
rig, boat or floating blind, bushwack rig, canoe, rowboat, skiff, or snelrkboat.

(3) "GUNNING RIG" DOES NOT INCLUDE A SINK BOX.

10-602.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, [nighttime]
"NIGHTTIME" means the time the Secretary of Interior of the United States adopts
by rule or regulation.

10-603.

A person may not shoot any wild waterfowl resting on land or water. However, a
person who wounds and cripples any wild waterfowl may shoot [it] THE
WATERFOWL.

10-604.

(a) During open season, a person may hunt wild waterfowl with a shotgun fired
from the shoulder. The shotgun may not be larger than a (ten] 10 gauge nor loaded
with:

(1) [lead] LEAD shot larger than that known as "b-b"; or

(2) [steel] STEEL shot, or other nontoxic shot approved by the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, larger than that known as size "T".

(b) (1) A person may not hunt any wild waterfowl with an automatic loading
or hand operated repeating shotgun capable of holding more than ['three] 3 shells.
Subject to federal rule or regulation, the prohibition of this subsection does not apply to
an automatic loading or hand-operated repeating shotgun whose magazine is cut off or
which is plugged with a one piece metal or wooden filler incapable of removal through
the loading end that reduces the capacity of the gun to hold no more than [three] 3
shells at any [one] 1 time in the magazine and chamber combined.

(d) A Natural Resources Police officer or any law enforcement officer shall
confiscate any crossbow, any gun larger than [ten] 10 gauge, or rifle or pistol of any
description found in the vicinity of wild waterfowl.

(e) Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, [neither] the Secretary [of Natural
Resources nor] AND any other official of the Department [of Natural Resources] may
NOT [promulgate] ADOPT any [rule or] regulation banning or limiting the use or
possession of lead shot ammunition while hunting wild waterfowl. Any [rule or]
regulation which bans or limits the use or possession of lead shot ammunition while
hunting wild waterfowl is declared null, void, and of no effect. [Neither the] THE State
[nor] AND any agency or department may NOT request that the federal government
enforce any federal rule or regulation regarding a ban or limit on the use or possession
of lead shot ammunition, except for nontoxic shot zones as classified by the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service.

10-606.

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