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LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [Ch. 327

THE SECRETARY MAY ISSUE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO
IMPLEMENT THIS SECTION.

4-2A08.

(A)     THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBTITLE DO NOT
PROHIBIT:

(1)     IMPORTATION INTO THE STATE OF FISH WHICH
MAY BE LAWFULLY IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES OR
LAWFULLY TAKEN AND REMOVED FROM ANOTHER STATE; OR

(2)     ENTRY INTO THIS STATE OR THE POSSESSION,
TRANSPORTATION, EXPORTATION, PROCESSING, SALE, OFFER FOR
SALE, OR SHIPMENT OF ANY FISH WHICH IS DESIGNATED AN
ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES IN THIS STATE BUT NOT IN
THE STATE WHERE ORIGINALLY TAKEN, IF THE PERSON ENGAGING
IN THE ACTIVITY DEMONSTRATES BY SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE THAT
THE FISH WAS LAWFULLY TAKEN AND LAWFULLY REMOVED FROM THE
STATE OF ORIGIN.

(B)     THIS SECTION DOES NOT PERMIT THE POSSESSION,
TRANSPORTATION, EXPORTATION, PROCESSING, SALE, OFFER FOR
SALE OR SHIPMENT WITHIN THIS STATE OF SPECIES OF FISH
DETERMINED, PURSUANT TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, TO BE
AN ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES EXCEPT AS PERMITTED
BY §4-2A09.

4-2A09.

THE SUBTITLE MAY BE CITED AS THE ENDANGERED SPECIES
OF FISH CONSERVATION ACT.

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

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 328
(Senate Bill 515)

AN ACT concerning

Public Assistance — Welfare Fraud

FOR the purpose of requiring certain persons to sign and
read ,or have read to them, a certain statement
before receiving public assistance.