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than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or
by both fine and imprisonment. Each day a violation hereunder exists
shall be a separate offense.

(3) In addition to any fine imposed by a violation of this section,
every person convicted hereunder shall pay to the Director a sum
sufficient to reclaim the area mined.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972. 1973.

Approved May 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 356
(Senate Bill 12)

AN ACT to add new Sections 29E through 29G inclusive to Article
96A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Vol-
ume and 1971 Supplement), title "Water Resources," said new-
sections to follow immediately after Section 29D thereof, and to
be under the new subtitle "Research and Development of Oil Dis-
charge Prevention and Pollution CONTAINMENT, Control AND
CLEAN-UP," granting the Department of Natural Resources the
authority to license oil terminal facilities; establishing a system
of licensing and fees therefor; creating the Maryland Oil Disaster
Research, Development CONTAINMENT, CLEAN-UP and Con-
tingency Fund, in order to research and develop AND PROVIDE
the equipment, personnel, and plans to respond and contain dam-
age caused by the discharge of oil and, petroleum products, AND
THEIR BY-PRODUCTS, into the lands and waters of this State,
to contain and remove these discharges, to provide for restoration
of damaged resources, and to require reimbursement to the fund
of the cost of such containment, CLEAN-UP, removal and restora-
tion; TO PROVIDE FOR CRIMINAL SANCTIONS; and matters
generally relating thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 29E through 29G inclusive be and are hereby
added to Article 96A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964
Replacement Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Water Resources,"
said new sections to follow immediately after Section 29D thereof
and to be under the new subtitle "Research and Development of Oil
Discharge Prevention and Pollution CONTAINMENT, Control AND
CLEAN-UP," and to read as follows:

Research and Development of Oil Discharge Prevention and
Pollution CONTAINMENT, Control AND CLEAN-UP

29E.

The following words and phrases as used in this subtitle, unless
a different meaning is plainly required by the context, have the fol-
lowing meaning: