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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 282

FOR the purpose of repealing the requirement that a person

possessing a regular hunter's license obtain a

migratory wild waterfowl stamp to hunt those waterfowl.

FOR the purpose of creating an advisory committee appointed
by the Governor with certain powers and duties
concerning a duck release program, prohibiting the
Department of Natural Resources from releasing certain
ducks, and generally relating to the State's Duck
Release Program.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources
Section 10-308.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

[10-308.1.

(a)  In addition to the regular hunter's license, a
person hunting migratory wild waterfowl in the State first
shall obtain a Maryland migratory wild waterfowl stamp.

(b)  A Maryland migratory wild waterfowl stamp is not
required of the following:

(1)  The owner or tenant of farmland, his spouse
and children, or the spouse of any child who resides on the
farmland, when hunting on that farmland. A tenant is a
person holding land under a lease, or a sharecropper who
resides in a dwelling on the land, but not an employee of
the owner or tenant; and

(2)  Any resident serving in the Armed Forces of
the United States while on leave in the State, during his
leave period, if, while hunting, he possesses a copy of his
leave order.

(c)  A person may obtain a Maryland migratory wild
waterfowl stamp for a fee of $1.10 from the clerk of the
circuit court of any county, or the clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of Baltimore City, or from any person
designated by the Department. The issuing clerk or person
designated shall retain the sum of 10 cents as compensation
for issuing each stamp. The balance of the fee is paid over
and accounted for in the same manner as hunter's licenses.

(d)  The Maryland migratory wild waterfowl stamp shall
be fixed adhesively to the back of the regular hunting