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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 46

10-308.

(a)   In addition to the regular hunter's license, a
person hunting deer [or turkey] in the State first shall
obtain a [big game] DEER stamp.

(b)  A [big game] DEER 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. A tenant is a person holding land under a lease,
or a sharecropper who resides in a dwelling on the land, but
it does not include any 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
official leave order.

(c)  A person may obtain a deer stamp for a fee of
$5.50 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. A resident 65
years of age or over shall pay $1 for a deer stamp. 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 court clerk or designated person shall write
or stamp the date of issuance on the face of every [big
game] DEER stamp issued pursuant to this section. Each stamp
shall be affixed adhesively to the back of the regular
season hunter's license of the person to whom the stamp is
issued. The recipient shall sign the stamp in ink.

(e)  Unless expressly exempted under this section, the
residents of any county in this State shall receive first
consideration for 75 percent of the antlerless deer permits
to hunt in the county of residence, and a State resident
shall receive first consideration for this permit over any
nonresident of the State for the remainder of the permits to
be issued.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved April 13, 1982.