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residential and business uses, ] and abutting or bordering
upon the Chesapeake Bay tributaries[,] or [upon] any
other [[steam]] stream or body of water in this State, as
shown by the plats of [said] THE respective subdivisions
recorded among the land records of [said] THE county[,be,
and the same] are[, hereby] respectively created separate
taxing and assessment districts[; and each]. EACH
district, for the purposes of this subtitle, shall bear
the name of the subdivision out of which it is created.

(B) THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBTITLE RELATING TO
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EROSION PREVENTION WORKS ARE
SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE NATURAL RESOURCES ARTICLE PROVISIONS
RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SHORE EROSION CONTROL
PROJECTS.

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

Approved April 13, 1976.

CHAPTER 176

(House Bill 577)

AN ACT concerning

Natural Resources Police Officers

FOR the purpose of giving Natural Resources Police
Officers discretion in issuance of citations to
persons committing a misdemeanor.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article — Natural Resources
Section 1-205 (a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 1-205(a) of Article - Natural
Resources, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1974 Volume
and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

1-205.

(a) [Whenever a person is apprehended by] IF a
Natural Resources Police officer APPREHENDS A PERSON for
violating any law punishable as a misdemeanor the officer