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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 170

(1)  RESTRICT THE POSSESSION, LANDING, SELLING, OR
TRANSPORTING OF ANY LOBSTER OR LOBSTER PARTS;

(2)  ESTABLISH MINIMUM SIZE LIMITS FOR LOBSTERS.

(B) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PUBLISH A NOTICE OF ITS PROPOSED
LOBSTER HARVEST REGULATIONS, AND OF ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, AT
LEAST 30 DAYS BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE PROPOSAL AND SHALL
HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSAL AT LEAST 15 DAYS BEFORE THE
EFFECTIVE DATE UNLESS A PUBLIC HEARING ON A SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR
PROPOSAL HAS BEEN CONDUCTED IN THE STATE BY A FEDERAL MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY WITH NOTICE ADVERTISED BY THE DEPARTMENT AS REQUIRED BY
THIS SECTION. THE NOTICE SHALL INCLUDE THE TIME AND PLACE OF ANY
HEARING AND SHALL BE PUBLISHED IN AT LEAST ONE NEWSPAPER OF
GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE STATE AND AT LEAST ONE NEWSPAPER OF
GENERAL CIRCULATION IN WORCESTER COUNTY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 8, 1984.

CHAPTER 171

(House Bill 230)

AN ACT concerning

Mentally Retarded Individuals - Rights

FOR the purpose of establishing, as State policy, that a mentally
retarded individual who receives services in certain
facilities should have the right to worship as the
individual chooses and a right to an accounting of certain
of the individual's funds.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 7-601(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

7-601.