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birds reared and purchased under Sections 180 and 181 of this article
may be shot in flight immediately upon release at retriever trials
after said [pheasants and ducks] birds have been properly identified.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved March 24, 1967.

CHAPTER 12
(Senate Bill 150)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 181 (a)
of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Natural Resources", subtitle "Birds, Game and Inland Water
Fish", subheading "Raising Game in Captivity", repealing the
provision requiring persons licensed to raise game to offer game
first to the Director of the Game and Inland Fish Commission be-
fore selling it and the provision that such licensee must make an
annual itemized statement to the Commission of certain records
of his game, and to provide that such a licensee shall allow any
officer enforcing the game and inland fish laws to enter and in-
spect his game raising facilities.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 181 (a) of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Natural Resources," subtitle "Birds,
Game and Inland Water Fish", subheading "Raising Game in Cap-
tivity", be and is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

181.

(a) [Before any licensee shall offer any game raised on his prop-
erty for sale, said game shall first be offered to the Director of this
State for propagation purposes and said Director within ten days
after receipt of said offer shall notify the licensee whether he de-
sires to purchase same or not.} Before any game raised in captivity
is shipped or removed from any premises the licensee shall apply
to the Director for a metal tag, which shall be supplied at reasonable
cost. Said tags shall be attached to each game bird or game animal
before same is removed from the premises and shall remain attached
to the individual game birds and game animals until prepared for
final consumption and shall not be used more than once, but be im-
mediately destroyed on removal. It shall be unlawful for any person
who engages in the occupation of raising and selling game, as pro-
vided for in Section 180, to ship same beyond the confines of this
State at any time, either dead or alive, without a permit from the
Director so to do. Every licensee shall keep a ledger of all game
purchased by him, number of eggs received, the number of birds or
animals raised, the number killed, [and] the number sold either dead
or alive [, and make an itemized report to the Director of this State
on or before December 15 of each and every year. Said report must
be made as herein provided before said licensee receives a breeder's