MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        693

Baltimore City jail until such fine and costs are IS paid but such
imprisonment shall not exceed twenty days for each offense. Any
person convicted for hunting without proper license and tag in
possession while hunting, or using any other person's license or tag,
said license and tag shall be confiscated and the person upon whom
it was found and the licensee shall be disbarred from procuring a
hunter's license for a period of one year.

Any nonresident of the State of Maryland found guilty of hunting
any game protected by law or wild birds or wild animals without
having first procured a hunting license, or for refusing to show said
license when demanded by the Director or any wildlife officer, sheriff,
constable or other officer or landowner or his representative, for
failing to prominently display the license tag as provided by law, or
procuring a license under an assumed name, illegal address or mak-
ing false statement, or violating any of the other provisions of this
subheading, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county or city
where the offense was committed, shall be fined fifty dollars ($50.00)
NOT LESS THAN FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00) NOR MORE THAN
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($500.00) for each and every offense
and shall stand committed to the county jail or the Baltimore City
jail until such fine and costs are IS paid, but such imprisonment
shall not exceed thirty (30) days for each offense.

Provided, however, if a person to whom a hunting license has been
duly issued, through inadvertence, has not the same in his possession
at the time of arrest, he may present same to the justice or court
before whom he was convicted within five days after conviction and
if the court or justice finds said license and tag were duly issued
prior to the apprehension of said person then in that event at the
discretion of said court or justice the fine imposed may be $5.00 for
each and every offense instead of $20.00 THE FINES as herein pre-
scribed for residents and fifty dollars ($50.00) THE FINES as
herein prescribed for non-residents.

Provided, however, that in Cecil County any person accused hereof
shall be tried by the trial magistrate geographically located nearest
to the place wherein the alleged offense was alleged to have been
committed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved April 23, 1969.

CHAPTER 236
(Senate Bill 434)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 175 (a)
of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Natural Resources," subtitle "Birds, Game
and Inland Water Fish," subheading "Fur Bearers," to remove
Montgomery County from the extended hunting and trapping
season on mink and muskrat and to delete other provisions which
no longer apply.