HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               1407

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 19 79.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 504

(Senate Bill 995)

AN ACT concerning

Forestry

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Natural
Resources to develop a long—term forest resource plan
to provide for the sustained yield of forest resource
benefits; authorizing the Department and local

governments to administer an urban and community

forestry—program;—defining certain terms to cooperate
with a certain federal department and to accept certain
federal funds; and generally relating to forest
resources.

BY adding to

Article — Natural Resources

Section 5-214; 5-424, 5-425, and 5-426 to bo under new

"Part IV. Urban and Community—Forestry" of

Subtitle 4.
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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

5-214.

(A) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP A SYSTEM FOR
LONG-RANGE RENEWABLE FOREST RESOURCES PLANNING. THE PUBLIC
AND PRIVATE FOREST LAND RESOURCES OF MARYLAND, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WOOD FIBER, FOREST RECREATION, WILDLIFE,
FISH, FOREST WATERSHED, AND WILDERNESS POTENTIAL, SHALL BE
EXAMINED AND INVENTORIED PERIODICALLY. AS PART OF THE
FOREST RESOURCE PLANNING PROCESS, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
PERIODICALLY DEVELOP, REVIEW AND REVISE A RESOURCE PLAN THAT
SHOULD HELP TO PROVIDE FOR THE SUSTAINED YIELD OF FOREST
RESOURCE BENEFITS FOR THE CITIZENS OF MARYLAND. THE FOREST
RESOURCE PLAN SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC AND
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW AND COMMENT.