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title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Jurisdiction, Procedure
and Sentence"; and Section 665 of Article 66C of said Code, title
"Natural Resources", sub-title "Oysters and Clams", providing
that Section 675 of Article 27 shall have no application to Section
665 of Article 66C, and further providing for the removal of the
jurisdiction of the courts mentioned in Section 665 of Article 66C
over offenses committed in Chesapeake Bay waters.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 675 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Juris-
diction, Procedure and Sentence", and Section 665 of Article 66C
of said Code, title "Natural Resources", sub-title "Oysters and
Clams", be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

675. Any person who shall commit any crime, offense or mis-
demeanor upon the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, within the limits
of this State, and without the body of any county thereof, and all
aiders, abettors, comforters and accessories thereof and thereto, may
be indicted and tried in any court of this State having jurisdiction
of similar crimes, offenses and misdemeanors, of the county in which
he may be arrested, or into which he may first be brought. The
provisions of this section shall not be applicable to Section 665 of
Article 66C of this Code.

665. (a).

(1). Whenever the word "Court" or "Courts" is used in this
section it shall mean and include any Circuit Court of the Tidewater
Counties, the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, any Trial Magistrate
of the said Counties or City, or any Justice of the Peace having
criminal jurisdiction in any of the said Tidewater Counties, provided
such Court, Trial Magistrate or Justice of the Peace has jurisdiction
over the alleged violator.

[Any of the above mentioned Courts shall have jurisdiction to hear
and determine any criminal proceeding brought against any person
for the violation of the provisions of this Article in the event that
said violations occurred or were committed in or on the waters of
the Chesapeake Bay, as defined in Sub-section (j), Sec. 649 of this
sub-title, title "Definitions".

If the said violation occurred in or on county waters, as defined
in Sub-section (i) of said Sec. 649, the Courts having jurisdiction
in the county where the violation occurred shall have jurisdiction
thereof.] If the said violation occurred in any waters adjacent to
and contiguous with any tidewater county, the courts having juris-
diction in the county where the violation occurred shall have juris-
diction thereof.

When the word "person" is used in this section it shall have the
meaning defined in Sub-section (m) of [said] Sec. 649 of this sub-
title, Definitions".

In all criminal proceedings arising from the violation of any of
the provisions of this sub-title the defendant shall have the right of
appeal in the same manner and to the same extent that defendants
now have in case of convictions for misdemeanors.