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

July 1, 1968.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THIS
ACT IS HEREBY DECLARED TO BE AN EMERGENCY
MEASURE AND NECESSARY FOR THE IMMEDIATE PRES-
ERVATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY, AND
HAVING BEEN PASSED BY A YEA AND NAY VOTE SUP-
PORTED BY THREE-FIFTHS OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED
TO EACH OF THE TWO HOUSES OF THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY, THE SAME SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM THE
DATE OF ITS PASSAGE.

Approved April 10, 1968.

CHAPTER 366
(House Bill 1101)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 293 of
Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement
Volume), title "Natural Resources," subtitle "Fish and Fisheries,"
subheading "Tidal Waters," to decrease the minimum legal size of
sea trout or weakfish, which may be caught.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 293 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume), title "Natural Resources," subtitle
"Fish and Fisheries," subheading "Tidal Waters," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows :

293.

No person shall catch or in any manner take or kill, sell, offer to
buy or sell or expose for sale, or have in possession any bass, large or
small mouth, less than 9 inches; any catfish less than 8 inches; any
perch, white or yellow, less than 9 8 inches, if taken or caught in any
manner other than by hook or line; any pike or walleyed pike less
than 14 inches; any rock, otherwise known as striped bass, less than
12 inches in length or weighing more than 15 pounds, it shall be
lawful, however, in the Susquehanna River above Hog Back Shoals
and in all waters of the State of Maryland at any time of the year
except from March 1 to and including June 15 to catch striped bass
weighing more than fifteen (15) pounds, provided said striped bass
so taken are caught only with a hook and line and not sold or offered
for sale and not more than one per day for each person; any
sturgeon weighing less than 25 pounds, and taylor or bluefish less
than 8 inches; any sea trout or weakfish less than [10] 9 inches;
any hardheads or croakers less than 10 inches; any butterfish less
than 6 inches; measurement in the case of each fish shall be from
the tip of the nose to the end of the caudal fin or tail.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved April 10, 1968.