638                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND                            [Ch.

THE ARMED FORCES OR EMPLOYMENT IN ESSENTIAL WAR
INDUSTRIES, AND THE LICENSEE APPLIES TO THE DEPARTMENT
FOR THE RENEWAL OF HIS LICENSE WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE
TERMINATION OF HOSTILITIES OR FROM THE DATE OF HIS
RELEASE FROM THE ARMED FORCES. IF A LICENSEE CAN NOT
FISH EVERY NET FOP WHICH HE WAS LICENSED AT ANY TIME
DURING A WAR EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF SOME CONDITION
ARISING OUT OF A WAR, HE MAY NOT BE DEPRIVED OF HIS
RIGHT TO A LICENSE FOR THESE NETS THEREAFTER.

(C) DEPARTMENT REQUIRED TO MAIL COMMERCIAL NET
FISHING LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATIONS. - THE DEPARTMENT
SHALL MAIL BLANKS TO APPLY FOR RENEWAL OF LICENSE TO
EACH LICENSEE AT THE ADDRESS GIVEN IN HIS MOST RECENT
APPLICATION OR TO ANY OTHER ADDRESS HE DESIGNATES IN
WRITING SUBSEQUENT TO FILING AN APPLICATION. THESE
BLANKS SHALL BE SENT BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED BAIL
IN NOVEMBER, AND THE MAILING CONSTITUTES SUFFICIENT
NOTICE AND WARNING THE LICENSE EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31
OF THE SAME YEAR.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Subsections (a) and (b) presently
appears as Article 66C, section 300 of the
Code. The provision of subsection (b)
relating to war hostilities, which was
apparently drafted in light of World War
II, has been revised so that it refers to
any war time situation.

Subsection (c) presently appears as Article
66C, section 301, the second paragraph, and
has been inserted here for organizational
purposes.

The only other changes made are in style.

4-706. TRANSFER OF ANY COMMERCIAL NET FISHING
LICENSE.

(A) IN GENERAL. - A COMMERCIAL NET FISHING
LICENSE TO SET ANY POUND NET, HAUL SEINE, FYKE NET, OR
HOOP NET ISSUED UNDER THIS SUBTITLE MAY BE TRANSFERRED
WHENEVER THE OWNER OF THE NETS, BOATS, GEAR, AND OTHER
EQUIPMENT NECESSARY FOR THEIR OPERATION, SELLS AND
CONVEYS THEM BY BILL OF SALE FOR A BONA FIDE
CONSIDERATION TO ANY PERSON ELIGIBLE TO USE THE
LICENSE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBTITLE. THE
DEPARTMENT MAY TRANSFER AND ISSUE A NEW LICENSE VALID
FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE LICENSE YEAR, IF THE
OUTSTANDING LICENSE IS SURRENDERED, AND AFTER THE NEW
OWNER EXECUTES AN APPLICATION AND PAYS A $5 TRANSFER