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Ch. 275 LAWS OF MARYLAND
certain licensee's to perform certain acts; and making this
Act an emergency measure.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-1033(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1983 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Natural Resources
4-1033.
(a) The Department shall adopt rules and regulations
assuring that a tidal fish license authorizes a person to use
only one hydraulic clam dredge. The Department also shall adopt
rules and regulations [prohibiting a licensee from] REQUIRING ALL
LICENSEES operating a hydraulic clam dredge owned by another
person, or subject to a lien held by another person[, licensed
under the provisions of this section, unless the owner or lien
holder was the owner of the hydraulic clam dredge, as evidenced
by Department records. However, the Department may waive the
prohibitions of this subsection when an owner or lien holder is
temporarily incapacitated and cannot operate a hydraulic clam
dredge. In any event, a licensee may not operate a hydraulic clam
dredge owned by a person who owns or holds a lien on more than
one hydraulic clam dredge. The provisions of this subsection do
not apply to Talbot County] TO HAVE THE LICENSE IN POSSESSION
WHEN ENGAGED IN LICENSED ACTIVITIES AN AND TO AFFIX PERMANENTLY
THE LICENSE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER PERMANENTLY TO THE VESSEL AS
REQUIRED IN § 4-701(G) AND (H) OF THIS ARTICLE.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, it shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 29, 1987.
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