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grenades, fire balloons, signal lights, and any combustible or ex-
plosive composition, or any substance or combination of substances,
or article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or an
audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation.
The term "fireworks" shall not include toy pistols, toy canes, toy
guns, or other devices in which paper caps containing twenty-five
hundredths grains or less of explosive compound are used, providing
they are so constructed that the hand cannot come in contact with
the cap when in place for use, and toy pistol paper caps which con-
tain less than twenty-hundredths grains of explosive mixture, the
sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times. No munici-

pality or political subdivision of this state shall enact any ordi-

nance or other regulation inconsistent with the provisions of this

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved May 3, 1961.

CHAPTER 824
(House Bill 449)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 264 (g)
and 298 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition), title "Natural Resources", sub-title "Fish and Fisheries",
sub-heading "Part 2. Tidal Waters", relating to the duty of persons
licensed for fishing with nets and seines to remove and renew
certain stakes, authorizing the Tidewater Fisheries Commission to
comply with these provisions under certain circumstances, and
amending the law concerning applications for nets and seines to
require a statement of compliance with the provisions relating to
the removal and renewal of stakes.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 264 (g) and 298 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Natural Resources", sub-title
"Fish and Fisheries", sub-heading "Part 2. Tidal Waters", be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

264.

(g) It shall be the duty of each licensee to maintain his stakes in
good condition, and promptly to remove and renew any stakes that
may be unsound, broken or liable to go adrift. Except for that
portion of the Chesapeake Bay lying south of the Bay Bridge and
north from a line drawn due easterly from No Point to Hoopers
Island Light House, it shall be unlawful to permit or allow to remain
in the water any pound or net stake for a period greater than thirty
days following the removal of the net or twine from each stake, or
the discontinuance of fishing of said nets. If the licensee does not
comply with the provision of this sub-section, the Commission may
remove any such stakes at any time after the times indicated. SHALL