HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                       609

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

Approved May 8, 1984.

CHAPTER 184

(House Bill 374)

AN ACT concerning

Natural Resources - Wildland and Open Areas

FOR the purpose of designating 824 acres of Patuxent River State
Park in Howard and Montgomery counties as the Patuxent River
Wildland, a Type II wildland, and designating 792 acres of
Gunpowder Falls State Park in Baltimore County as the
Gunpowder Falls Wildland, a Type II wildland.

BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources

Section 5-1203(h) and (i)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

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

Article - Natural Resources

5-1203.

(H) (1) PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (A) OF
THIS SECTION THAT PROPERTY IN HOWARD AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 824 ACRES AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS IS A
TYPE II STATE WILDLAND AND SHALL BE NAMED THE "PATUXENT RIVER
WILDLAND":

BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE SOUTH SHORE OF THE PATUXENT
RIVER AT THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF THE HIPSLEY
MILL ROAD, AND PROCEEDING COUNTERCLOCKWISE ABOUT THE BOUNDARY OF
THE WILDLAND AREA, SOUTHWESTERLY WITH SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY MARGIN
APPROXIMATELY 3,050 FEET TO THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF PATUXENT
RIVER STATE PARK (HEREAFTER THE PARK). THENCE LEAVING HIPSLEY
MILL ROAD AND FOLLOWING SAID PARK BOUNDARY SOUTHEASTERLY
APPROXIMATELY 1,700 FEET; THENCE LEAVING THE PARK BOUNDARY AND
WITH THE FOREST BOUNDING A FIELD, ON THE RIGHT HAND, EASTERLY
APPROXIMATELY 1,400 FEET. STILL WITH THE FOREST EDGE
SOUTHWESTERLY APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET, THENCE EASTERLY
APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET, THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY APPROXIMATELY , 800