HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-806(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-809(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Natural Resources

4-806.

(D) IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER PENALTY PROVIDED IN THIS
TITLE, THE DEPARTMENT, AFTER DUE HEARING ON AT LEAST 10
DAYS' NOTICE TO THE LICENSEE, MAY SUSPEND OR REVOKE A
LICENSE ISSUED UNDER THIS SUBTITLE IF THE LICENSEE OR HIS
AGENTS HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF VIOLATIONS ON EACH OF 2 3
OR MORE DAYS IN ANY LICENSE YEAR OF ANY PROVISIONS OF THIS
SUBTITLE OR OF DEPARTMENTAL REGULATIONS RELATING TO CRABS.

4-809.

(a) A person may not catch or possess more than [four]
10 hard crabs per bushel or [ten] 25 hard crabs per barrel
which measure less than 5 inches across the shell from tip
to tip of spike, any peelers measuring less than 3 inches
across the shell from tip to tip of spike, or any soft crabs
measuring less than three and one-half inches across the
shell from tip to tip of spike.

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

taking failure to take effect of Chapter ___ of the Acts of

1982 (H.B./S.B. __ No. ___ 677) (21r1630), and if

Chapter ___ does not become becomes effective, this Act shall

be null and void without the necessity of action by
the General Assembly.

Approved May 20, 1982.

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