WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 547

farmland, children's spouse. A tenant is a person holding land under a lease, or a
sharecropper who resides in a dwelling on the land, but it does not include any
employee of the owner or tenant;

(2) Any resident serving in the Armed Forces of the United States while
on leave in the State, during the resident's leave period, if, while hunting, the resident
possesses a copy of the resident's official leave order; and

(3) Any unarmed person participating in an organized foxhunt.

(c) A person may apply for a hunter's license to the clerk of the circuit court for
any county or to any person designated by the Department. The application shall be on
a form the Department prepares and supplies. The applicant shall fill out, sign, and
submit the application to the court clerk or person designated to issue the hunter's
license. A person may apply by mail.

(d) The application shall contain the applicant's name, height, color of eyes and
hair, occupation, place of residence, and social security number. If the applicant is a
nonresident, the applicant also shall present the applicant's driver's license, voter's
card, or resident hunter's license.

(e) Before a hunting license may be issued the applicant for the license shall
sign a statement which says:

"I understand that this hunting license does not of itself permit me to hunt on
private property, and if I do so without permission of the owner, I may be subject to a
fine."

(f) (1) [(i) There is a consolidated hunting license system in the State that
eliminates the necessity of purchasing individual hunting stamps, except for the federal
and State migratory wild waterfowl stamps under § 10-308.1 of this subtitle.

(ii) A consolidated hunting license authorizes a purchaser to hunt
deer during each hunting season in the State, including bow and arrow, black powder,
and regular firearms seasons.

(2) There is a basic hunting license which authorizes the purchaser to hunt
all legal game except deer and waterfowl.

(3) (i) There is a senior consolidated annual hunting license and a
senior consolidated lifetime hunting license for residents who are at least 65 years old.

(ii) The senior consolidated annual hunting license and the senior
consolidated lifetime hunting license authorizes the purchaser to hunt big game in each
hunting season in the State, including bow and arrow, black powder, and regular
firearms season.] THERE SHALL BE THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF HUNTING
LICENSES IN THE STATE:

(I) A RESIDENT CONSOLIDATED HUNTING LICENSE THAT
ENABLES THE PURCHASER TO HUNT ALL LEGAL GAME BIRDS AND
MAMMALS DURING ANY APPROPRIATE SEASON IN MARYLAND WITHOUT

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