MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                      701

Subsection (c) is new language derived from
Article 66C, section 700(k)(2), as enacted
by Chapter 687, S.B. 489, Acts of 1973.
The only other changes made are in style.

4-1012. AREAS WHERE DREDGING IS PERMITTED; PRIMA
FACIE EVIDENCE OF DREDGING.

(A)   CHESAPEAKE BAY.--ANY BOAT LICENSED TO CATCH

OYSTERS BY DREDGE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
SUBTITLE MAY BE USED IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY EXCEPT IN
THE FOLLOWING WATERS: THE AREA BOUNDED BY A LINE
DRAWN FROM BLOODY POINT LIGHTHOUSE NEAR KENT POINT TO
THE NORTHERN END OF POPLAR ISLAND; THEN SOUTHERLY
AROUND THE WESTERLY SHORE OF POPLAR ISLAND TO THE
SOUTHWESTERLY MOST POINT; THEN RUNNING IN A STRAIGHT
LINE TO THE DEPARTMENT BARKER ON THE NORTHERN SHORE OF
PAWPAW COVE WHICH AREA SHALL BE RESERVED FOR CATCHING
OF OYSTERS WITH TONGS; ALL THE AREA LYING WITHIN
ONE-FOURTH MILE OF THE WESTERN SHORE OF POPLAR ISLAND;
ALL THE AREA WITHIN ONE-HALF MILE OF PLUM POINT; ALL
THE AREA WITHIN ONE AND ONE-HALF MILES OF SANDY POINT,
HACKETT POINT, TOLLY POINT, AND THOMAS POINT WITHIN
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY WATERS; AND THE FOLLOWING OYSTER
BARS: HOLLAND POINT, THREE SISTERS, PARKERS ROCK
INCLUDING BAY SHORE AND LONG OYSTER BARS, FLAGPOND,
SWAN POINT, HICKORY THICKETT, ENTRANCE LUMP, WHITE
MARSH, GUM SPRING, HUNTINGFIELD, WINDMILL FLATS, AND
MUDDY DRAIN; AS DEFINED BY THE CHARTS OF THE OYSTER
SURVEY OF 1906 TO 1912, AND ITS AMENDMENTS.

(B)   COUNTY WATERS OPEN TO DREDGING.—ANY BOAT
LICENSED TO CATCH OYSTERS BY DREDGE SHALL TAKE OYSTERS
ONLY IN THE FOLLOWING WATERS:

(1)    DORCHESTER COUNTY. THE AREA BOUNDED
AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT CRAB POINT IN HONGA RIVER,
THEN PROCEEDING IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO THE MOST
EASTERLY POINT ON LOWER HOOPER ISLAND TO THE
DORCHESTER COUNTY LINE, THEN FOLLOWING THE SHORE LINE
TO RICHLAND POINT, THEN IN A STRAIGHT LINE SOUTHERLY
TO OAKANHANIKAN POINT, THEN FOLLOWING THE NORTH SHORE
LINE OF BLOODSWORTH ISLAND TO TIGS POINT, THEN IN A
NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION TO BISHOP HEAD POINT, THEN
ALONG THE SHORE TO CRAB POINT, AND THEN TO THE PLACE
OF BEGINNING.

(2)    DORCHESTER AND TALBOT COUNTIES. ALL
THAT PORTION OF THE CHOPTANK RIVER WITHIN AN AREA
BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE DEPARTMENT
MARKER ON UPPER BAR NECK, TILGHMAN ISLAND; THEN