2090

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 329

contiguous to Baltimore County without first obtaining
the permission in writing of the owner or occupier of the
bank or shore in Baltimore County of the creek, cove, or
branch of water opposite to which the seine or net is
placed.

4-728.

(a) A person may not set any net within [1,650]
1,500 feet in any direction of any other net, or any net
of a total length of more than (1,500] 1,650 feet,
including the net's leaders, hedges, or wings. In
addition, a net may not be set at a distance greater than
one fourth the distance across the bay, measured from the
low water mark. Also, a person may not set any kind of
net in the waters in the part of the Chesapeake Bay which
lies between a straight line drawn from Drum Point
Lighthouse in Calvert County to Hog Island in St. Mary's
County, and a straight line drawn from Cove Point
Lighthouse in Calvert County to Cedar Point Lighthouse in
St. Mary's County.

4-1004.

(c) The types of licenses to catch oysters or clams
for commercial purposes by the means enumerated in this
subtitle and the license fees are the following:

(1) Shaft or hand tongs $25 for each person
to catch oysters                       tonging or employed

on a tong boat

$15 for each per-
son operating
tongs or rake or
employed on a
tong boat

$50 for each per-
son tonging or
employed on a
patent tong boat,
which license shall
also allow catching
of oysters by shaft
for] tongs or diving
apparatus

(4) Patent tongs to catch $25 for each per—
clams                                                         son tonging or

employed on a

patent tong

boat

(2) Shaft or hand tongs,

or rakes to catch

clams

(3) Patent tongs to catch
oysters, or
diving apparatus