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HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               1367

FOR the purpose of requiring a person who hunts with a gun
on private land in Charles and St. Mary's Counties to
obtain the written permission of either the landowner
or certain other persons.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article — Natural Resources
Section 10-411(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1978 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

10-411.

(b) (1) A person may not upon any pretense come to
hunt with a gun, on the lands owned by another person
without the written permission of the landowner, his agent,
or lessee- Any person hunting on this private property is
liable for any damage he causes to the private property
while hunting on it. The landowner shall not be liable for
accidental injury or damage to the person whether or not the
landowner or his agent gave permission to hunt on it.

(2) The provisions of this subsection apply only
in the following counties:

(i) Cecil County

(II) CHARLES COUNTY

[ii] (III) Harford County

(IV) ST. MARY'S COUNTY

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 489
(Senate Bill 831)
AN ACT concerning