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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 468
Approved May 16, 2006.
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CHAPTER 468
(House Bill 704)
AN ACT concerning
Criminal Law - Prohibition Against Wild Animals
FOR the purpose of expanding the list of animals that a person is prohibited from
importing into the State, offering for sale, trading, bartering, or exchanging;
prohibiting the possession or breeding of certain animals; expanding the list of
exceptions to the prohibition on importing into the State, offering for sale,
trading, bartering, possessing, breeding, or exchanging certain animals;
providing for the enforcement of the prohibition by certain entities; authorizing
the seizure of certain animals under certain circumstances; establishing
procedures relating to the seizure of certain animals, including provisions for
notice, hearings, costs, and the return of the animal under certain
circumstances; providing for the disposition of certain animals under certain
circumstances; establishing certain procedures when the owner of a certain
animal dies under certain circumstances; and generally relating to wild
animals.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article — Criminal Law
Section 10-621
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Volume and 2005 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Criminal Law
10-621.
(a) (1) This section does not apply to [a person who:
(i) offers the species listed in subsection (b) of this section for sale,
trade, barter, import, or exchange to a public zoo, park, museum, or educational
institution; or
(ii) holds a valid State or federal permit to use the species listed in
subsection (b) of this section for educational, medical, scientific, or exhibition
purposes.
(2) This section does not apply to an animal of a species of wildlife not
kept as a household pet that is individually exempted from this section under a
permit issued by the Department of Natural Resources]:
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