Ch. 145 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article - Natural Resources

Section 10 109 and 10-412

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources

Section 10-412

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 10-405(a). 10-407, and 10-409
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:

Article - Natural Resources

10-101.

(a) In this title, the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Closed season" means the time when a person may not hunt any game bird
or mammal and includes any period of time not included within the open season.

(c) "County" includes Baltimore City unless otherwise indicated.

(d) "Department" means Department of Natural Resources.

(e) "Forest game birds and mammals" means forest game birds (ruffed grouse
and turkey) and forest game mammals (black bears, deer, fox squirrels, excluding the
Delmarva subspecies, and gray and red squirrels) or any part, egg, offspring, or dead
body of any of them, INCLUDING BIRDS RAISED IN CAPTIVITY AND
RELEASED TO THE WILD OR OTHERWISE USED FOR HUNTING PURPOSES.

(f) "Fur" or "pelt" means any raw, green, or cured skin and fur of any wild
quadrupeds.

(g) "Fur-bearing mammal" means any raccoon, bobcat, opossum, beaver, mink,
muskrat, otter, fox, skunk, fisher, and long-tailed weasel, or any part, offspring, or dead
body of any of them.

(h) "Game birds or mammals" means the species defined as forest game birds
and mammals, fur-bearing mammals, upland game birds and mammals, and wetland
game birds or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.

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