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taken to modify or destroy the effectiveness of such natural protec-
tive barriers. These practices constitute serious threats to the safety
of the adjacent lands and the ocean highway, and also to the value
and therefore to the assessable basis of those adjacent lands; and they
constitute a real danger to the health, safety, and welfare of the
persons living, visiting or sojourning in such area. It therefore is
deemed necessary to protect that area and especially the system of
natural protective barrier dunes; now therefore

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 6A to 6J, inclusive, be and they are hereby added
to Article 24 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Worcester County", to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 6 thereof and to be under the new sub-title "Beach Protection",
and all to read as follows:

Beach Protection

6A. No person, firm or corporation shall dig, mine, strip, exca-
vate, move or remove, relocate or carry away any sand, dirt, soil,
stones, or gravel of any nature or description upon or away from that
area in Worcester County, Maryland, lying between the Atlantic
Ocean on the East and Assowoman Bay, Isle of Wight Bay, Sinepux-
ent Bay and Chincoteague Bay on the West, and between the Dela-
ware State Line on the North and the Virginia State Line on the
South, except in connection with the construction or alteration of a
building or grading of the premises incidental thereto, or unless
excess material exists on the premises above that required to bring
the premises to the officially established grade in that area, which
shall be established by the County Commissioners of Worcester
County or an administrative department thereof, in which case the
excess material may not be removed without first having secured a
permit therefor from the County Commissioners of Worcester Coun-
ty, In areas where the grade has not been officially established, the
grade shall be established for the purposes of this Section as a line
running Westerly from the crest line of the protective barrier dune
system established in Section 6B of this sub-title, at a crest elevation
of plus 16.0 above mean low water on the East, then Westerly at such
crest elevation for a distance of 25 feet, and then continuing Wester-
ly in a slope to an elevation of plus 10.0 above mean low water at the
Easterly edge of the ocean highway (generally referred to as the
Coastal Highway), then with the contour of said ocean highway to
the Westerly edge thereof, then continuing Westerly with a one per-
cent grade to the waters of whichever bay may lie to the West of said
area. Before digging, mining, stripping, excavating, moving or re-
moving, relocating or carrying away any of said material where the
elevation shall be less than the established grade, a permit therefor
must be obtained from the County Commissioners of Worcester
County.

6B. No person, firm or corporation shall in any manner dig, mine,
strip, excavate, move or remove, relocate or carry away, or other-
wise disturb, injure, destroy or reduce the effectiveness as a natural
protection barrier of any sand dune, rise, hill, bluff or elevated sec-
tion of land or beach in that area described in Section 6A of this
sub-title, whether natural or created, which does or could form a part
of the protective barrier dune system as shown on a profile plat of
the State Roads Commission of Maryland, entitled "Beach, Dunes,