MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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Article - Natural Resources, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they
are hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

10-410.

(e) A person, OR TWO OR MORE PERSONS TOGETHER, may
not hunt or attempt to hunt at nighttime any specie of
wild bird or wild quadruped with a light, including the
headlights of any vehicle and also [[at nighttime]']

BETWEEN THE HOURS 10 P.M. AND DAWN a person, OR TWO OR

MORE PERSONS TOGETHER, may not cast the rays of any
artificial light when the rays emanate from a vehicle on
any woods, fields, orchards, livestock, wild animals or
birds, dwellings or buildings. The provisions of this
paragraph do not apply to the normal use of headlights of
a vehicle travelling on any public or private road in a
normal manner, [to a person using a light or lights for
purposes other than hunting, killing or intentionally
assisting to hunt or kill wildlife,] to any police,
emergency or utility company vehicle using spotlights in
the performance of their duties, or to any farmer or
landowner on his own or leased land using artificial
lights to check on livestock or poultry. However,
raccoons, FOX, or opossum may be hunted on foot at
nighttime during open season with the use of a dog and
light.

10-416.

(c) A person, OF TWO OR MORE PERSONS TOGETHER, may
not throw or cast the rays of a spotlight, headlight,
artificial light, battery, or other device on any highway
or in any field, woodland, or forest while possessing, or
having under control, a firearm or other implement by
which any deer could be killed, even though the deer is
not shot at, injured, or killed. The provisions of this
subsection do not apply where the headlight of a motor
vehicle, operated by any person traveling on a highway in
the usual way, casts a light upon deer on or adjacent to
the highway and there was no attempt or intent to locate
them.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 4, 1976.

CHAPTER 467
(House Bill 1030)