WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 346

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Natural   Resources

Section 5-1203(1)

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

5-1203.

(a) In order to assure that an increasing population,
accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization,
does not occupy and modify all areas within the State, leaving no
lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural
condition, it is the policy of the General Assembly to secure for
the people of present and future generations the benefits of an
enduring resource of State wildlands. For this purpose there is
established a State wildlands preservation system composed of
areas in the State designated by the General Assembly as
"wildland areas". The wildland areas shall be administered for
the use and enjoyment of the people of Maryland in a manner that
will leave them unimpaired for the future use and enjoyment as
wildlands, to provide for their protection, preservation of their
wildland character, and for gathering and dissemination of
information regarding their use and enjoyment as wildlands. A
State land may not be designated as "wildland areas" except as
provided for in this section or by a subsequent act.

(L) UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION,
THAT PROPERTY IN ALLEGANY COUNTY, CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 1,140
630 ACRES DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS IS A TYPE 2 STATE WILDLAND AND
SHALL BE NAMED THE POTOMAC BENDS WILDLAND:

BEGINNING ON THE SHORE OF THE POTOMAC RIVER AND AT THE EAST
BOUNDARY OF THE NORTHEAST END OF THE PAWPAW HOLLOW TUNNEL SECTION
OF THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL, THEN FOLLOWING THE POTOMAC
SHORE UPRIVER AND AROUND THE ENTIRE SINUOUS PENINSULA TO THE EAST
BOUNDARY OF THE SOUTH END OF THE PAWPAW TUNNEL SECTION, THEN
NORTHERLY AND NORTHEASTERLY ALONG THE CANAL BOUNDARY TO THE POINT
OF BEGINNING, MEANING TO INCLUDE AND INCLUDING ALL STATE OWNED
LANDS AND ONLY LANDS THAT ARE STATE-OWNED WITHIN THIS DESCRIBED
PENINSULA, AND ALSO INCLUDING IN THE WILDLAND THE ONE STATE-OWNED
OFFSHORE ISLAND FLANKING THE NORTHERN SHORE OF THE PENINSULA.

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