WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 186

CHAPTER 186

(Senate Bill 924)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore and Harford Counties - Hunting and Trapping
Muskrat and Mink

FOR the purpose of altering the season during which a person may
hunt or trap muskrat or mink in Baltimore County and Harford
County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 10-406(b)(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

10-406.

(b) (1) (i) A person may possess any green pelt of any
fur-bearing mammal until March 25 for purposes of curing the
skins.

(ii) However, in Frederick, Garrett, Allegany,
Carroll, Howard, and Washington counties, a person may hunt or
trap mink or muskrat between November 15 and February 15, of the
year following, and a person may possess any green mink and
muskrat pelt until February 25 for purposes of curing the skin.

(iii) 1. In the remainder of the State except
for the counties in item 2. of this paragraph, a person may hunt
or trap mink or muskrat between January 1 and March 15.

2. In BALTIMORE, Cecil, HARFORD, Kent,
Queen Anne's, Somerset, and Worcester counties, a person may hunt
or trap mink or muskrat between December 15 and March 15 of the
year following.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved April 29, 1987.

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