MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            1151

sufficient grounds to deny an application.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 8, 1975.

CHAPTER 187
(House Bill 123)

AN ACT concerning

Oysters — Dredging License

FOR the purpose of eliminating the requirement that the
seller and purchaser of a licensed dredge boat must
personally appear before the Department of Natural
Resources and make oath to every fact contained in
the application to transfer a dredge boat license;
requiring the seller and purchaser of a licensed
dredge boat to certify on the application to
transfer the dredge boat license that the statements
made by him in the application are true; and
requiring a transfer fee.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article — Natural Resources

Section 4-1014

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 4-1014 of Article - Natural
Resources, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1974 Volume
and 1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

4-1014.

A licensed dredge boat owner may sell and convey by
bill of sale for bona fide consideration the boat to any
person who has been a resident of this State for at least
one year, and transfer the license to the same person who