Ch. 649 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Section 8-1808.l(b) and (c), respectively

to be Section 8-1808.l(c) and (d), respectively

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources

Section 8-1808.l(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 8-1802(a) and 8-1809
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1983 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

Preamble

WHEREAS, The Joint Committee on Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas was
created in 1984 to meet with the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission and to
review the development and implementation of the criteria for program development in
the areas of the State subject to the Critical Area Law; and

WHEREAS, Chapter 234 of the Acts of 1988 expanded the authority of the Joint
Committee on the Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas to include, among other things, a
determination of whether the criteria need to be strengthened in any area to make the
Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Protection Program more effective in the protection of
the water quality and habitat of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries; and

WHEREAS, During the 1989 Interim, the Joint Committee on Chesapeake Bay
Critical Areas held open meetings on the upper and lower Eastern and Western Shores
of the Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge, Chestertown, Prince Frederick, and Towson and
gathered public comments from representatives of counties and municipalities having
land within the critical areas, landowners in the critical areas, and other interested
parties; and

WHEREAS, After due consideration of the issues raised, the Joint Committee on
Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas developed a legislative program to address some of the
problem areas encountered in its study during the 1989 Interim; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 8-1808.1(b) and (c), respectively, of Article - Natural
Resources of the Annotated Code of Maryland be renumbered to be Section(s)
8-1808.1(c) and (d), respectively.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

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