Ch. 534

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(a)  Any person desiring to sell live bait in Montgomery,
Frederick, or Washington County shall apply to the clerk of the
circuit court for the county for a live bait dealer's license.
The application shall be in the form the Department prescribes,
and contain an affidavit signed by the applicant that he is a
resident of the county. Upon payment by the applicant of an
annual fee of $10.50, the clerk of the circuit court may issue a
license supplied by the Department to the clerk. As compensation
for each bait dealer's license issued, the clerk of the circuit
court shall retain 50 cents. Any money collected for license fees
during a month shall be forwarded to the Department on the first
day of each succeeding month. The Department shall account for
the money to the State Treasurer.

(b)  A live bait dealer may sell only minnows, chubs
measuring less than 6 inches in length, and killifishes and mad
toms procured from the waters of the Potomac River. He may not
possess more than 750 bait fish of every type at one time. The
bait boxes of the live bait dealer shall be open for a natural
resources police officer to inspect at any reasonable time.

(c)  A live bait dealer may not sell more than 35 bait fish
to any person in any day. A licensee may not transport bait fish
out of the county where purchased or sell it outside that county.
A purchaser from the licensee may not resell bait fish but may
transport it outside of the county where purchased.

[4-622.] 4-11A-20.

(a)  The Department may issue a permit authorizing a person
to establish and operate an artificial or man-made pond or lake
which he owns, leases, or controls, where fishing is permitted
for payment of a fee, and in which fish stocked are artificially
propagated by commercial hatcheries, or purchased from persons
licensed to sell fish. The Department may issue the permit if it
determines the lake or pond does not conflict with any reasonable
prior public interest. The permit fee shall be $25 a year. The
permit expires on December 31 following the date of issuance.

(b)  The Department shall prescribe by rule or regulation
the size of the area, method of fishing, open and closed seasons,
and the catching of fish by furnishing tags for a reasonable fee.
The Department also shall regulate the release, possession, and
use of legally propagated game and freshwater fish, and may
require any report necessary concerning the operation of these
areas.

(c)  Any permit issued under the provision of this section
may be revoked for violation of any provision of this section or
any rule or regulation of the Department relating to fee-fishing
lakes. The owner or operator of a fee-fishing lake or pond may
not operate it without a permit.

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