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1916] OF THE SENATE. 1175
Also laid-over Bill, with amendment, being
HOUSE BILL No. 515, BY MR. DELAPLAINE.
SUBJECT: FORESTRY—ROADSIDE TREES.
Amendment proposed by Committee on Roads and High-
ways: "Strike out all after the words 'A Bill7 and insert in
lieu thereof the following: 'Entitled an Act to repeal Section 8
of Chapter 824 of the Acts of 1914, codified as Section 15-H
of Article 39-A of the third volume of the Annotated Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Forestry/7 sub-title
"Roadside Trees,77 and to re-enact the same, with amendments.
'Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 8 of Chapter 824 of. the Acts of
1914, codified as Section 15-H of Article 39-A of the third
volume of the Annotated of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Forestry/7 sub-title "Roadside Trees/7 be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:
'Section 15-H. Any person or persons who may desire to
cut down or trim any roadside tree shall make application
to the State Board of Forestry for a permit, except in the
two following cases: (1) that where trees are uprooted or
branches of trees broken in such manner that they shall
come in contact with telephone, telegraph, electric light or
other wires carrying electric current, or where such trees or
branches shall endanger persons or property, such trees or
branches of trees, as the case may be, may be removed in
such an emergency without first obtaining a permit from the
State Board of Forestry; and (2) that trees standing within
the right-of-way of unimproved public roads which have not
been surfaced with either stone, shell, gravel, concrete, brick,
asphalt or other improved surface, may be cut down and re-
moved by the abutting landowner for his own use without
first obtaining a permit. Any person or persons who shall
cut down, trim, mutilate or in any manner injure any road-
side tree, except as provided for in this section, without a
permit from the State Board of Forestry or its duly author-
ized representative, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction shall be punishable by a fine of not less than
H\e dollars or more than fifty dollars for each offense, which
fine shall be payable to the State Board of Forestry for the
purposes described in this Act.
'Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, 1916.7 77 [Which was read and
adopted.] [Which favorable report was adopted^ which ivas
read the second time.]
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