Ch. 686

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(b)  A hunting license or other individual hunting stamp is
not required of the following:

(1)  The owner or tenant of farmland, the owner's or
tenant's spouse and children, or the spouse of any child who
resides on the farmland. 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; and

(2)  Any resident serving in the Armed Forces of the
United States while on leave in the State, during the resident's
leave period, if, while hunting, the resident possesses a copy of
the resident's official leave order.

(c)  A person with a basic hunting license shall obtain a
deer stamp for a fee as provided in § 10-301(f)(5) of this
subtitle. A person with a basic hunting license hunting deer
during the bow hunting season shall obtain a special bow hunting
deer stamp for a fee as provided in § 10-301(f)(5) of this
subtitle. A person with a basic hunting license hunting deer
with a muzzle loader during the muzzle loader deer season shall
obtain a special black powder deer stamp for a fee as provided in
§ 10-301(f)(5) of this subtitle. A person may obtain the
consolidated hunting license, the basic license, or individual
hunting stamp from the clerk of the circuit court of any county
or from any person designated by the Department. The issuing
clerk or person designated shall retain the sum of 50 cents as
compensation for issuing each basic hunting license and an
individual hunting stamp and $1 as compensation for issuing each
consolidated hunting license. The balance of the fee is paid
over and accounted for in the same manner as hunting licenses.
The Department shall use $1 from the sale of each consolidated
hunting license and, except for the fee retained by the issuing
clerk, all of the money derived from the sale of bow and arrow
and black powder stamps to:

(1)  Establish an effective and efficient deer
checking system during the muzzle loader and bow hunting deer
season;

(2)  Acquire additional hunter access during the
muzzle loader and bow hunting season; and

(3)  Police hunting lands during the muzzle loader and
bow hunting season.

(d)  The court clerk or designated person shall write or
stamp the date of issuance on the face of every consolidated
hunting license, basic hunting license, and individual hunting
stamp issued under this section. Each individual hunting stamp
shall be affixed in the manner that the Department provides. The
recipient shall sign the consolidated hunting license or basic
hunting license in ink.

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