3084

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 805

use as food. Also, a licensed hunter may obtain a permit from the
Department during open season or within five days after open
season closes to possess any frozen game bird or mammal for a
period not exceeding 180 days.

(b)  A person may ship or bring into the State by express or
as baggage any game bird or mammal he legally killed in any other
state, territory, or country, if he accompanies the game bird or
mammal and presents a hunter's license or permit of the other
state, territory, or country where the game bird or mammal was
killed if the document is required by the other state, territory,
or country. However, game birds and mammals or any part of them
brought into the State may not be sold or offered for sale.

(c)  [(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) or unless a] A
person [holds a game breeder's license, he] may not sell, offer
for sale, purchase, offer to purchase, barter, or exchange, at
any time within the State any game bird or GAME mammal TAKEN FROM
THE WILD, except the meat, pelt or carcass of any muskrat,
raccoon, mink, otter, nutria, [or] opossum, BEAVER, FOX,
LONG-TAIL WEASEL, FISHER, OR SKUNK, whether caught in the State
or in another state, territory, or country. [However, a person
may purchase and keep live game birds and mammals in captivity
for propagation if he first obtains a permit from the Secretary
and pays a $2 fee. This permit shall expire December 31 of the
issuing year.

(2) A person may purchase and sell pheasant, quail,
and mallard ducks raised in or out of State by a game breeder.
The seller and purchaser shall maintain records indicating the
origin of every bird purchased or sold including the name and
address of the game breeder. The records are subject to
inspection by the Department at any reasonable time.]

10-414.

(a)  A person may not possess any live raccoon or opossum
[during any closed season] unless he first procures a permit from
the Department. ANY RACCOON OR OPOSSUM REDUCED TO POSSESSION BY
A HUNTER OR TRAPPER SHALL BE IMMEDIATELY KILLED.

(b)  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, the
owner of a marsh or his employees may hunt any raccoon which
destroys a muskrat or its home in a marsh area of the State at
any time.

(c)  A landowner or his agent may set or use steel traps or
similar devices at any time to trap raccoon or opossum which are
damaging property.

(d)  A person may not cut a tree for the purpose of hunting
or dislodging a raccoon or opossum without the consent of the
owner of the tree.

[10-418.