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ALSO ALLOW CATCHING
OF OYSTERS BY SHAFT
OR TONGS OR DIVING
APPARATUS

(4) PATENT TONGS TO CATCH $25 FOR EACH PERSON
CLAMS                                               TONGING OR EMPLOYED

ON A PATENT TONG
BOAT

(5)  DREDGE OR HANDSCRAPE $100 FOR EACH DREDGE
TO CATCH OYSTERS OR HANDSCRAPE

OPERATED

(6)  DREDGE OR HANDSCRAPE $50 FOR EACH DREDGE
TO CATCH CLAMS                         OR HANDSCRAPE

OPERATED

(7)  HYDRAULIC DREDGE TO $100 FOR EACH DREDGE
CATCH CLAMS OF ANY OPERATED

SPECIES

(D)  DISPOSITION OF LICENSE FEES. - THE DEPARTMENT
SHALL FORWARD EVERY LICENSE FEE RECEIVED PURSUANT TO
THIS SECTION TO THE STATE COMPTROLLER TO BE CREDITED
TO THE FISHERIES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUND.

(E)    EXEMPTION FROM LICENSE AND LICENSE FEE
REQUIREMENT. - A PERSON UNDER 14 YEARS OF AGE IS NOT
REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A TONGING LICENSE REQUIRED BY THIS
SECTION. IN ADDITION, A PERSON 65 YEARS OF AGE AND
OVER IS NOT REQUIRED TO PAY THE LICENSE FEES SPECIFIED
IN THIS SECTION.

(F)    ISSUANCE OF LICENSE. - THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
ISSUE LICENSES PURSUANT TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS
IT PRESCRIBES.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Subsection (a) presently appears
as Article 66C, section 698 (b) of the Code,
as amended by Chapter 427, S.B. 737, Acts
of 1973. The stipulation that oysters-
caught for personal consumption cannot be
sold is proposed for deletion as redundant.
In addition, the last sentence in
subsection (a) is proposed for deletion
since its provisions appear in proposed
subsections (c) and (e) .

Subsection (b) presently appears as Article
66C, section 698(c) of the Code.