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(e)    To use any funds that may be available to the Department
from the federal government, or from any gift or donation or other
sources, for such purposes as may, in the judgment of the Depart-
ment be necessary for the rehabilitation of the seafood industry,
subject to budgetary requirements.

(f)   To cooperate with any county, or political subdivision of any
county, which may provide funds for the purchase of shells and
planting of same, the purchase and transplanting of seed oysters,
under such regulations as the Department may prescribe, except
that the county commissioners of such county, or mayor and council
of any city that may expend funds for this purpose, or their ap-
pointed agents, shall have the right to designate areas where the
shells they purchase are to be planted.

(g)    To provide a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00)
nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) in addition to confisca-
tion of the boat and any equipment, for any person or persons from
another state taking oysters, clams or crabs in any waters of Mary-
land not covered by existing prohibitory laws.

(h) To import shellfish or other organisms of any variety to be
used for experimental purposes.

(i) To make uniform the size and weight of patent tongs in
waters where patent tongs are or may be authorized to be used, ex-
cept that any person using any size or weight of patent tongs on the
effective date of this section is permitted to continue to use said
tongs.

13B. Any person, firm, association or corporation desiring per-
mission to extract sand, gravel, rare earth, minerals, or any other
resources from the public lands under the public navigable waters of
the Chesapeake Bay (NOT INCLUDING TRIBUTARIES AND
ESTUARIES OF THE BAY) must make application therefore to the
Department, describing the location of the land under the public
navigable waters of the Chesapeake Bay from which such resources
are to be recovered, where possible by stakes driven at definite corners,
or otherwise, so as to make practicable the survey of such land as
provided for in Section 26 of this Article. The application shall be
accompanied by a filing fee of ten dollars ($10.00). The Department
shall receive and review such application and grant a permit if
deemed in the best interest of the State.

13C. The Department shall have general supervisory power, regu-
lation and control over the taking of eels within the bounds of tide-
water within which certain restrictions presently obtain, and in the
sound exercise of this power, regulation, and control the Department
is hereby authorized to prescribe within the said bounds of tidal
waters the area within which eels may be taken and to prescribe the
method or methods by means of which the eels must be taken.

13D. Whenever there is evidence or a reasonable suspicion of
the presence of any destructive disease, deleterious, genetic charac-
teristic, or of any dangerous parasite, or other biological threat to the
shellfish populations of the State of Maryland, the Department is
authorized and empowered to adopt rules and regulations, and to
amend, alter, correct, repeal or rescind such rules and regulations, as
from time to time may be necessary and advisable, to prohibit the