HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     2851

open-pit mining operator's license; providing for certain
notices concerning the payment or nonpayment of county coal
severance taxes and surcharges; providing for certain
presumptions in the absence of notification under this Act;
making stylistic changes; and prohibiting the Department of
Natural Resources from renewing an open-pit mining
operator's license until certain notification is provided
and certain surcharges and taxes are paid; and allowing the
Department to renew a license under this Act under certain
conditions.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 7-504(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

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

Article - Natural Resources

7-504.

(a) (1) (I) A person may not conduct open-pit mining as an
operator within the State without a currently valid license from
the Department.

(II) Each application for a license as an
open-pit mining operator shall be made in writing to the
Department, on a form the Department furnishes and accompanied by
a $200 fee. The application shall contain information concerning
the applicant as required by the Department. In the case of an
application submitted by a corporation, partnership, or
association, the application shall contain information concerning
officers, directors, and principal owners, as the Department
requires.

(2) (I) Every person licensed as an open-pit mining
operator shall renew [his] THE PERSON'S license annually and pay
a $10 renewal fee.

(II) The application for renewal of a license
as an open-pit mining operator shall be made on or before January

1 of the next succeeding year AND SHALL INCLUDE WRITTEN

NOTIFICATION FROM THE COUNTY FISCAL AUTHORITY STATING THAT THE
PERSON HAS PAID ALL COUNTY COAL SEVERANCE TAXES AND SURCHARGES
THAT ARE DUE THROUGH THE PREVIOUS MONTH OF NOVEMBER, AS PROVIDED
UNDER ARTICLE 81, § 468 OF THE CODE AND § 7-507.1 OF THIS

SUBTITLE. THE DEPARTMENT MAY NOT RENEW A PERSON'S OPEN PIT

MINING OPERATOR'S LICENSE UNTIL THE PERSON PROVIDES WRITTEN
NOTIFICATION FROM THE COUNTY FISCAL OFFICER STATING THAT ALL OF
THE PERSON'S COUNTY COAL SEVERANCE TAXES AND SURCHARGES THAT ARE
DUE THROUGH THE PREVIOUS MONTH OF NOVEMBER HAVE BEEN PAID.