2450                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 621

ADMINISTRATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE.

557B.

(A) ANY PERSON WHO MAINTAINS AND OPERATES A RELATED
INSTITUTION WHICH IS AN ALCOHOL ABUSE FACILITY, WITHOUT A
CERTIFICATION UNDER §557A OF THIS ARTICLE, IS GUILTY OF A
MISDEMEANOR AND ON CONVICTION IS SUBJECT TO A FINE NOT TO
EXCEED $1,000 FOR THE FIRST OFFENSE AND NOT TO EXCEED

$10,000 FOR EACH SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE. EACH DAY THAT A

RELATED INSTITUTION WHICH IS AN ALCOHOL ABUSE FACILITY
OPERATES WITHOUT A CERTIFICATION AFTER A FIRST CONVICTION
SHALL BE CONSIDERED A SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE.

(B)(1) ANY PERSON WHO MAINTAINS AND OPERATES A

RELATED INSTITUTION WHICH IS AN ALCOHOL ABUSE FACILITY IN
VIOLATION OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE
DEPARTMENT IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND, ON CONVICTION, IS
SUBJECT TO A FINE NOT TO EXCEED $500 FOR THE FIRST OFFENSE
AND NOT TO EXCEED $5,000 FOR EACH SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE.

(2) EACH DAY THAT A RELATED INSTITUTION WHICH IS
AN ALCOHOL ABUSE FACILITY OPERATES IN VIOLATION OF THE RULES
AND REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE DEPARTMENT AFTER A FIRST
CONVICTION SHALL BE CONSIDERED A SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1983.

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 622

(House Bill 568)

AN ACT concerning

Oysters - Harvest on Leased Oyster Bottoms By Lessee

FOR the purpose of allowing a lessee to harvest leased
oyster bottoms in any manner in Dorchester, Charles,
Queen Anne's, Kent, and Somerset counties.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-1116(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: