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(b) The department may not lease any of the
submerged areas of the state [in Dorchester,] WITHIN THE
[[COUNTY WATERS OF]] JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES OF
DORCHESTER. Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset and Talbot
counties [[OR WITHIN THE JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES OF
DORCHESTER COUNTY]] 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, devising by will or
prohibit the descendents of any lessee, his heirs, or
next of kin, from inheriting rights by the operation of
the laws of descent and distribution. If an existing
lease does not provide for renewal, the department may
grant renewal when the lease terminates unless good cause
to the contrary is shown. However, a person may not
lease more acreage than now authorized by law regardless
of the manner in which the lease or the rights under the
lease are obtained.

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

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 380
(Senate Bill 992)

AN ACT concerning

Kent County — Urban Renewal in Chestertown

FOR the purpose of authorizing the municipal corporation
of Chestertown in Kent County to undertake by
appropriate legislative action an urban renewal and
redevelopment program; defining certain terms;
specifying certain powers of Chestertown with regard
to urban renewal projects; establishing an urban
renewal agency; providing for the preparation and

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