Ch. 724

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(2)  Provide for a consolidated hunting license;

(3)  Decrease administrative costs to the Department
of Natural Resources; and

(4)  Provide for a fee schedule that is at least
revenue neutral or revenue positive for the Department of Natural
Resources; and

WHEREAS, This Act is a product of this study during the 1987
Legislative Interim; now, therefore,

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

Article - Natural Resources

10-301.

(a)  To provide a fund to pay the expense of protecting and
managing wildlife, and preventing unauthorized persons from
hunting them, a person may not hunt or attempt to hunt during
open season and in any permitted manner any game birds and
mammals in the State without first having procured either a
resident or nonresident hunter's license. A person may not hunt
or attempt to hunt nongame birds and mammals in Baltimore County
or Frederick County without first obtaining a license. A
permanent resident of a government reservation may obtain a
resident hunter's license.

(b)  The following persons are not required to obtain a
hunter's license:

(1)  With respect to hunting on farmland only:

(i) The owner of the farmland and the owner's
spouse, children, and children's spouse; and

(ii) A tenant and the tenant's spouse,
children, and, if residing on the farmland, children's spouse. A
tenant is a person holding land under a lease, or a sharecropper
who resides in a dwelling on the land, but it does not include
any employee of the owner or tenant;

(2)  Any resident serving in the Armed Forces of the
United States while on leave in the State, during [his] THE
RESIDENT'S leave period, if, while hunting, [he] THE RESIDENT
possesses a copy of [his] THE RESIDENT'S official leave order;
and

(3)  Any unarmed person participating in an organized
foxhunt.

- 4772 -