Ch. 196                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND

26.                         

Any person duly qualified as an engineer or surveyor and his
duly accredited assistants and representatives may, in the
execution of surveys, enter upon any private land whereon there
is a marked survey station for which the horizontal or vertical
position has been determined by or under the direction of the
[United States Coast and] NATIONAL Geodetic Survey, or as a part
of the Maryland coordinate system, or any other organization
whose survey stations have been established by or in accordance
with the requirements of the State department authorized to
administer the Maryland coordinate system, if such entry is for
the purpose of utilizing the horizontal or vertical position data
in controlling surveys of land for cadastral purposes; or for
other engineering purposes, private or public.

29.

If any person shall wilfully injure, deface or destroy the
mark or monument at any survey station established by or under
the direction of the [United States Coast and] NATIONAL Geodetic
Survey, or the State department administering the Maryland
coordinate system, or by any other organization whose survey
stations have been established by or in accordance with the
requirements of the State department authorized to administer the
Maryland coordinate system, or by any other State, municipal or
county agency, or shall offer any obstacles to the proper,
reasonable, and legal use of any such station, such person shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed two hundred and fifty
dollars for each offense and costs, or shall be imprisoned for a
term of not less than six months, or both, in the discretion of
the court.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Maryland
coordinate system defined by the North American Datum of 1927 may
be used concurrently or in lieu of the Maryland coordinate system
defined by the North American Datum of 1983 until July 1, 1992.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.                                                                           

Approved April 29, 1987.

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