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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 40

Hunting - Open Season for Certain Game Birds -
Public Hearing

FOR the purpose of requiring that prior to the establishment
of an open season for doves, mergansers, woodcock, and
wetland game birds, including wild waterfowl, the
Department of Natural Resources must conduct public
hearings for certain game birds, at least one of which
must be held in certain counties.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 10-407

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article - Natural Resources

10-407.

(A)  BEFORE ESTABLISHING THE OPEN SEASON FOR DUCKS,
EXCEPT SEA DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWAN AS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION
(B) OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL CONDUCT PUBLIC
HEARINGS ON THE PROPOSED SEASON, AT LEAST ONE OF WHICH SHALL
BE HELD, ON AN ALTERNATING BASIS, IN WICOMICO, SOMERSET,
WORCESTER OR DORCHESTER COUNTIES.

(B)  The [department] DEPARTMENT annually shall
establish and publish the open season, excepting Sundays,
for doves, mergansers, woodcock, and wetland game birds,
including wild waterfowl, in conformity with the federal
migratory bird rules and regulations adopted annually by the
Secretary of Interior of the United States.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved April 14, 1981.

CHAPTER 41
(House Bill 282)
AN ACT concerning

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