MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 633

REVIEW GENERAL POLICY. ONE MEETING SHALL BE HELD
PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF THE ANNUAL OYSTER SEASON EACH
FALL. A MEETING SHALL CONVENE WHEN CALLED BY THE
SECRETARY OR REQUESTED BY A MAJORITY OF EITHER THE
WATERMEN MEMBERS OR THE SEAFOOD PROCESSOR MEMBERS OF
THE COMMITTEE.]]

4-701. VACANT

4-702. NONRESIDENTS' SEAFOOD BUYERS LICENSE.

THE DEPARTMENT MAY ISSUE A LICENSE AND ESTABLISH
A FEE FOR EVERY NONRESIDENT BUYER OF SEAFOOD
PURCHASED, WHETHER IN WHOLE SALE OR BULK QUANTITIES,
FROM A BUY BOAT, TRUCK, OR OTHER VEHICLE. A FEE MAY
NOT EXCEED $50 ANNUALLY.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language
derived from Article 66C, section 13A(c) of
the Code and inserted here for
organizational purposes.

4-703. ONLY CITIZEN OR LANDOWNER MAY [[FISH]] CATCH
FINFISH WITH NETS IN THE TIDAL WATERS OF THE STATE.

A PERSON WHO IS NOT A RESIDENT OR LANDOWNER OF
THE STATE MAY NOT [[FISH]] CATCH FINFISH IN THE TIDAL
WATERS OF THE STATE WITH A NET OF ANY DESCRIPTION.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section presently appears as
Article 66C, section 262 of the Code.

The provision of section 262 prohibiting a
resident from fishing in waters of a county
of which he is not a resident and the
exceptions to this rule are proposed for
deletion as unconstitutional in light of
Bruce v. Director, 261 Md. 585 (1971). In
that case, the Maryland court of Appeals
held unconstitutional the residential and
territorial restrictions placed by the
State on the licensing of commercial
fishermen who engage in crabbing and
oystering in the tidal waters of the State.
These restrictions which prohibited any
resident of the State from taking crabs and
oysters from waters of a county of which he
was not a resident were declared an
unlawful classification of persons and
discriminatory among the watermen of the
several counties in contravention of