HOUSE BILL No. 1139

2571

BY adding to

Article — Natural Resources
Section 4-1011 (d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 4—1011(d) be and it is hereby
added to Article — Natural Resources, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1974 Volume and 1974 Supplement) to
read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

4-101-1.

(D) A PERSON MAY NOT USE OR EMPLOY ANY PATENT
TONGS TO TAKE OR CATCH OYSTERS LYING IN THE [[FOLLOWING
WATERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY.

(1)    MANOKIN RIVER: ALL OF THAT AREA WEST OF
A LINE DRAWN FROM CRAB POINT TO ST. PIERRE ISLAND, THENCE
SOUTHWEST TO PINEY ISLAND, THENCE SOUTHWEST TO A POINT
WHICH INTERSECTS WITH THE DREDGE LINE, THENCE FOLLOWING
THE DREDGE LINE TO PIN POINT.

(2)    UPPER TANGIER SOUND: ALL THAT AREA EAST
OF A LINE DRAWN FROM LONG POINT TOWARD THE GREAT SCHOAL
LIGHTHOUSE UNTIL IT INTERSECTS WITH THE WICOMICO COUNTY
TERRITORIAL LIMITS, THEM FOLLOWING THE WICOMICO-SOMERSET
TERRITORIAL LINE UP THE WICOMICO RIVER]] [[. ]] WATERS OF
HOLLAND STRAITS LYING WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF
SOMERSET COUNTY. HOLLAND STRAITS IS THAT BODY OF WATER
BOUND BY A LINE, ON THE NORTH OR TANGIER SOUND SIDE,
DRAWN FROM LOWER ISLAND POINT TO SOUND POINT AND BY A
LINE, ON THE SOUTH OR KEDGES STRAITS SIDE, DRAWN FROM PRY
ISLAND TO THE SOUTHERN END OF HOLLAND ISLAND.

[[(3) HOLLAND STRAITS: ALL THAT AREA LYING
WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF SOMERSET COUNTY.
HOLLAND STRAITS IS THAT BODY OF WATER BOUND BY A LINE, ON
THE NORTH OR TANGIER SOUND SIDE, DRAWN FROM LOWER ISLAND
POINT TO SOUND POINT AND BY A LINE, ON THE SOUTH OR
KEDGES STRAITS SIDE, DRAWN FROM PRY ISLAND TO THE
SOUTHERN END OF HOLLAND ISLAND.]]

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

Approved April 22, 1975.