HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               819

subsection (16) of this section, the benefits payable to any
correctional officer in these classifications who has served
as a correctional officer in one of these classifications,
for five or more years immediately preceding retirement,
shall commence upon attainment of age 55 years.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s)
11(21) of Article 73B - Pensions, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland be renumbered to be Section(s) 11(20).

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 8, 1980.

CHAPTER 83

(House Bill 531)

AN ACT concerning

Payment of Soft-Shell Clam Severance Taxes

FOR the purpose of correcting an error in a cross-reference.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 4-1007

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

4-1007.

The Department may designate by rule or regulation
certain areas of the State, known as buying stations, where
a person who catches oysters and clams may sell them. A
person may not sell his catch in any place not designated a
buying station. A person may not buy oysters or clams from
the person who catches them in any place not designated a
buying station. However, any person may buy soft-shell clams
anywhere for his own consumption or use as bait, but not for
resale from the person who catches them. However, the person
who catches the soft-shell clams shall assume responsibility
for paying the tax imposed by [§ 4-1036] § 4-1035 of this
subtitle.