Ch. 547 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 547
(House Bill 222)

AN ACT concerning

Hunting Licenses and Stamps

FOR the purpose of clarifying the game species that can be hunted with each type of
hunting license; specifying that certain hunting licenses are for residents of the
State only; increasing certain fees for certain nonresident licenses; establishing a
certain fee for a certain nonresident license for certain nonresidents; clarifying
when it is necessary to purchase additional stamps; repealing the mandated
minimum number of hunting licenses and stamps to be distributed to each agent;
clarifying the licenses and stamps agents may sell; repealing a provision allowing
the Department of Natural Resources to issue a permit to hunt certain whitetailed
deer; setting a deadline for tho purchase of the second deer stamp; requiring that
a second deer stamp be purchased for each type of deer season; establishing a
certain fee for second deer stamps for nonresidents; and generally relating to hunting
licenses and stamps in Maryland.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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Section 10-301, 10-302, 10-308, 10-308.1, and 10-415
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1983 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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10-301.

(a) To provide a fund to pay the expense of protecting and managing wildlife,
and preventing unauthorized persons from hunting them, a person may not hunt or
attempt to hunt during open season and in any permitted manner any game birds and
mammals in the State without first having procured either a resident or nonresident
hunter's license. A person may not hunt or attempt to hunt nongame birds and
mammals in Baltimore County or Frederick County without first obtaining a license. A
permanent resident of a government reservation may obtain a resident hunter's license.

(b) The following persons are not required to obtain a hunter's license:
(1) With respect to hunting on farmland only:

(i) The owner of the farmland and the owner's spouse, children, and
children's spouse; and

(ii) A tenant and the tenant's spouse, children, and, if residing on the
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