HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                 263

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

10-101.

(v) "Wetland game birds" means brant, coots, ducks,
gallinules, geese, [grebes, loons,] mergansers, [reedbirds,]
rails, [shorebirds,] snipe, and swan or any part, egg,
offspring, or dead body of any of them.

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

Approved April 10, 1979.

CHAPTER 53

(House Bill 341)

AN ACT concerning

Wildlife - Forest Game Birds and Mammals

FOR the purpose of redefining, for purposes of the wildlife
title of the Natural Resources Article, "forest game
birds and mammals" to exclude bear, flying squirrel,
and certain fox squirrel.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources
Section 10-101(e)
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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

10-101.

(e) "Forest game birds and mammals" means forest game
birds (ruffed grouse and turkey) and forest game mammals
([bear;] deer[; and flying], fox[,] SQUIRRELS, EXCLUDING THE
DELMARVA SUBSPECIES, AND gray and red squirrels) or any
part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.