WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                      Ch. 76

CHAPTER 7 6

(House Bill 308)

AN ACT concerning

Hunting - Prohibiting Ammunition Clips to Hunt Deer

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person from hunting deer with a
firearm using an ammunition clip holding more than a certain
number of cartridges or bullets; defining a certain term;
and making stylistic changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 10-416

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Natural Resources

10-416.

(a)  (1) A person may not hunt deer in the State with any
automatic firearm. [For the purposes of] IN this subsection, an
automatic firearm means a firearm designed to fire, or which is
mechanically altered to fire, two or more shots with one
continuous pressure on the trigger.

(2)  A person may not use full metal-jacketed,
incendiary, or tracer bullets in hunting deer in the State.
However, the use of metal-jacketed bullets designed to expand on
impact is not prohibited.

(3)  A PERSON MAY NOT HUNT DEER WITH ANY FIREARM THAT
USES AN AMMUNITION CLIP HOLDING MORE THAN 8 CARTRIDGES OR
BULLETS. IN THIS PARAGRAPH, "AMMUNITION CLIP" INCLUDES A
CARTRIDGE OR BULLET HOLDER CALLED A BANANA CLIP.

(b)  A person may not take a dog into the woods or possess
or control a dog in the woods and use it to hunt deer. In all
counties, except Baltimore, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince
George's, Somerset, and Worcester counties, any natural resources
police officer, law enforcement officer, or any other person may
kill any dog found pursuing any deer. In Caroline, Dorchester,
Talbot, Kent, Anne Arundel, Cecil, Charles, Garrett, St. Mary's,
Queen Anne's, Frederick, Carroll, and Calvert counties, dogs that

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