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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 20

IF INCLEMENT WEATHER HAS PREVAILED DURING THE TONGING
SEASON.

(2)    THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DETERMINE THE AREAS
WHERE HANDSCRAPING OF OYSTERS IS PERMITTED.

(3)    THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH REGULATIONS
FOR THE HANDSCRAPING OF OYSTERS PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION.
THERE SHALL BE A CATCH LIMIT OF 10 BUSHELS PER MAN AND NO
MORE THAN 30 BUSHELS PER BOAT. A PERSON MAY NOT HANDSCRAPE
FOR OYSTERS AFTER 12:00 NOON.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three—fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 14, 1978.

CHAPTER 21

(House Bill 747)

AN ACT concerning

Crimes and Punishments — Obscene Matter

FOR the purpose of repealing language which provides that
certain provisions of the criminal code pertaining to
obscene matter do not apply to certain persons; making
a technical change to the style of expression of a
certain provision of the criminal code pertaining to
obscene matter; and reenacting a certain provision of
the criminal code which makes it unlawful to sell,
distribute, print, exhibit or engage in certain other
acts pertaining to obscene matter; and declaring this
Act to be an emergency measure to take effect from the
date of its passage.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 417(2) and 418

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: