740                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND                             [Ch. 4

Subsection (d) presently appears as Article
66C, section 707(j) , as amended by senate
Bill 1044, chapter 735, Acts of 1973. The
only other changes made are in style.

4-1107. department may cooperate with political
subdivision providing funds for oyster cultivation.

the department may cooperate with any county or
political subdivision providing funds to purchase and
plant shells and transplant seed oysters. the
appropriate governing body of any county or political
subdivision that expends funds for this purpose may
designate the planting areas for the purchased shells.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language
derived form Article 66C, section 13A(f) of
the Code.

4-1108. LEASING SUBMERGED LAND FOR OYSTER
CULTIVATION; LEASE BY CORPORATION PROHIBITED.

(A) DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZED TO LEASE OYSTER
GROUNDS; LEASE BY CORPORATION OR JOINT STOCK COMPANY
PROHIBITED. - THE DEPARTMENT MAY LEASE, IN THE NAME OF
THE STATE, TRACTS OR PARCELS OF LAND BENEATH THE
WATERS OF THE STATE TO RESIDENTS OF THE STATE FOR
PROTECTING, SOWING, BEDDING, OR CULTIVATING OYSTERS OR
OTHER SHELL FISH, SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
SECTION. THESE SUBMERGED LANDS WHEN LEASED SHALL BE
KNOWN AS LEASED OYSTER BOTTOMS. A CORPORATION OR
JOINT STOCK COMPANY MAY NOT LEASE OR ACQUIRE BY
ASSIGNMENT OR OTHERWISE ANY SUBMERGED LAND OF THE
STATE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION.

(B) EXCEPTION FOR CHARLES, DORCHESTER, KENT,
QUEEN ANNE'S, SOMERSET AND TALBOT COUNTIES.—-THE
DEPARTMENT MAY NOT LEASE ANY OF THE SUBMERGED AREAS OF
THE STATE IN DORCHESTER, KENT, QUEEN ANNE'S, SOMERSET
AND TALBOT COUNTIES FOR OYSTER CULTIVATION. THE
DEPARTMENT ALSO MAY NOT LEASE ANY OF THE SUBMERGED
AREAS OF THE STATE IN THE TIDEWATER TRIBUTARIES OF
CHARLES COUNTY, EXCEPT THE PATUXENT RIVER, FOR OYSTER
CULTIVATION. THIS SUBSECTION DOES NOT AFFECT ANY
EXISTING LEASE IN SOMERSET COUNTY MADE PRIOR TO AND
EFFECTIVE ON JUNE 1, 1952; ANY LEASE IN DORCHESTER
COUNTY MADE PRIOR TO AND EFFECTIVE ON JUNE 1, 1957;
IN CHARLES COUNTY MADE PRIOR TO AND EFFECTIVE ON JULY
1, 1968 AND IN KENT, QUEEN ANNE'S AND TALBOT COUNTIES
MADE PRIOR TO JULY 1, 1973. THIS SUBSECTION ALSO DOES
NOT PREVENT ANY LESSEE FROM RENEWING, ASSIGNING,