658                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 475

CHAPTER 475
(House Bill 10)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 329 of
Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Natural Resources", sub-title "Fish and Fisheries", sub-
heading "Part 3. Crabs, Lobster and Terrapins—Crabs", relating
to the power of the Board of Natural Resources to veto and to
submit reports to the Tidewater Fisheries Department on pro-
posed regulations for crabbing in the State; and changing
reference herein to the Tidewater Fisheries Commission.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 329 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Natural Resources", sub-title "Fish and Fish-
eries", sub-heading "Part 3. Crabs, Lobster and Terrapins—Crabs",
be repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

329. Same—Public hearing.

No such rules or regulations of the [Commission] Department of
Tidewater Fisheries shall become effective under Section 328 until
said [Commission] Department has held public hearings on same,
and such public hearings shall be advertised as to time, place and
purpose in one newspaper of general daily circulation in the State,
and at least in two newspapers circulated in the tidewater counties
for two successive weeks in advance of said hearings and until the
Commission has transmitted a copy of the proposed rules or regu-
lations, together with the reasons for adopting them, to the Board
of Natural Resources and has received the written recommendation
of the Board on the rules or regulations. After such hearings and
upon adoption of such rules and regulations, [a certified copy of
same, together with reasons for adopting same, shall be transmitted
to the Board of Natural Resources at its next regular meeting or
at a special meeting called for that purpose. The Board of Natural
Resources shall vote to approve or disapprove such rules and regu-
lations and if a majority of the members present vote to disapprove
such rules and regulations, the same shall be null and void. But if
a majority of the members present at the meeting of the Board of
Natural Resources approve such rules and regulations,] the same
shall be published for one week in the newspapers bearing notice of
the hearing and shall thereafter have all the force and effect of law.
Any person or persons found guilty before a justice of the peace
qualified to try same, or before any court on appeal, of violating
any such rules and regulations, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and be fined not less than $10.00, nor more than $25.00 in the case
of any person or persons taking or catching crabs, and not less
than $10.00, nor more than $100.00 in the case of any buyer, packer,
or shipper of crabs.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.