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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 40

compelled to issue less than the following hunting licenses:

25 county resident

10 State—wide

5 nonresident

All agents shall designate the location where the
licenses are to be sold and shall file said information with
the Department at the time of purchase of licenses.

The agent shall agree to submit the necessary reports
of sales together with the duplicate stubs after the first
day of each and every month thereafter as long as he sells
these licenses in accordance with § 126 and said report and
stubs shall reach this office not later than the seventh day
of each succeeding month.

The Department of Game and Inland Fish shall credit all
authorized agents with all moneys paid for hunting licenses
and shall credit them with all licenses and tags returned by
them which have not keen issued and remain intact only in
the books and return to such agent the money received for
all unused or voided licenses. The agent shall agree to
fill out all licenses in a proper and legible manner and
this shall include the duplicate stubs which are to be filed
monthly in the office of the Department of Game and Inland
Fish above mentioned.

It shall be unlawful for any agent authorized to issue
any licenses under this section, to make any false
statements concerning dates of issuance or other license
data. All license books or stubs shall be available for
inspection at all times during the regular business day by
any officer authorized to enforce the State game and fish
laws. No person shall be permitted to issue any license
without receiving the license fees as required by law.
Receipts shall not be issued in lieu of licenses and receipt
so issued shall be in violation of this section.

Any agent who does not dispose of all hunting licenses
purchased from the Department of Game and Inland Fish and
who presents the unused licenses and tags to the Department
for a refund before June 30 of each year may be reimbursed
by the Department for the amount of licenses and tags
returned after the licenses and tags have been checked and
found to be correct. All licenses and tags not returned by
June 30 shall be deemed as sold and not reimbursable,
provided that an agent may return the licenses and tags in
proper condition to the Department after June 30 accompanied
by a notarized statement stating why the licenses and tags
were returned late, and the Department, after formal review,
may reimburse the agent.

Any agent convicted for any violation of the provisions
of this section before a court of competent jurisdiction of
this State shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall