780                              Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 376

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 22, 1970

CHAPTER 376
(House Bill 1289)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 322 of
Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Supple-
ment), title "Natural Resources," subtitle "Fish and Fisheries,"
subheading "Part 3. Crabs, Lobster and Terrapins," providing
that a crabbing license is not necessary for a person crabbing from
a "for hire" boat operated by the owner who is on board and
licensed to take crabs for market.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 322 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Supplement), title "Natural Resources," subtitle "Fish and
Fisheries," subheading "Part 3. Crabs, Lobster and Terrapins," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

322. Crabbers' licenses.

Any resident of Maryland desiring to take or catch crabs from the
waters thereof for market, and each person working on any boat
used in taking or catching of crabs for market, shall first obtain a
numbered license through the clerk of the circuit court for the
county in which he resides or from the clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, if he resides in Baltimore City, and shall pay the sum of $2,
and in addition thereto twenty-five cents to the clerk of the court for
issuing same, which license shall be good for the year of issuance
only and shall entitle the person obtaining same to take or catch
crabs by any of the methods now or hereafter authorized to be used,
including scrape, nets, dip nets or trotline. Provided, that such
license shall not authorize the taking or catching of crabs in any
creek, cove, river, inlet, bay or sound within the limits of any county
other than that wherein the license shall have been granted; pro-
vided that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent
the citizens of counties divided by a river from using such dividing
river in common. All persons taking or catching crabs under the
provisions of this subheading shall exhibit their license for so doing
when required by any officer of the Maryland marine police force,
or other officers of the State [.]; provided that a license shall not
be required of any person crabbing from a "for hire" boat operated
by the owner who is present on the boat and is licensed to take crabs
for market. Nonresidents of Maryland shall not be permitted to
catch crabs from the waters thereof for market. Residents of Balti-
more City may be licensed to catch crabs in Anne Arundel or Balti-
more counties. And providing further that in all the waters of the
Chesapeake Bay lying near the mouth of the Patuxent River, viz.;
that is to say, those waters above a line drawn at Cedar Point in St.
Mary's County to Cove Point in Calvert County, and below a line