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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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(Senate Bill 1097)
AN ACT concerning
Recreational Access Easement
FOR the purpose of creating a Recreational Access
Easement Program within the Department of Natural
Resources; authorizing the Department to execute
Recreational Access Easement Agreements; providing
for the approval of the Board of Public Works;
providing for the use of Program Open Space Funds;
and limiting the liability of the landowner.
BY adding to
Article - Natural Resources
Section 5-1202(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1976 Supplement)
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Preamble
WHEREAS, Growing population and increasing leisure
time is creating unprecedented demand for recreational
areas.
Escalating land costs continue to diminish the
ability of State and local governments to purchase
recreational land.
Escalating cost of government require the retention
of a taxable land base.
Large tracts of privately owned land, throughout the
State, could support passive and low intensity
recreational activities, as a subordinate use of the
land, with financial advantages to both the landowner and
the State and local governments; now, therefore,
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 5-1202(c) be and it is hereby
added to Article - Natural Resources, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1974 Volume and 1976 Supplement) to
read as follows:
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Article — Natural Resources
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5-1202.
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(C) (1) A LANDOWNER MAY OFFER A RECREATIONAL
ACCESS EASEMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
AND THE DEPARTMENT MAY EXECUTE SUCH AN EASEMENT. THE
RECREATIONAL ACCESS EASEMENTS SHALL PROVIDE FOR ACCESS TO
ALL OR A PORTION OF THE LANDOWNER'S PROPERTY FOR
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