WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 821

Article - Natural Resources

Section 10-619

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

Article - Natural Resources

10-619.

Stationary blinds or blind sites may not be erected,
maintained or licensed in the following waters:

(1)  Baltimore County: Middle River and its
tributaries and westerly or towards shore from a straight line
drawn from the tip of Wilson Point in a southwesterly direction
to the northwest corner of Cape May beach [and]; Back River and
its tributaries west of the Eastern Avenue Bridge; AND BIRD RIVER
AND IS TRIBUTARIES NORTH OF AN ISLAND CALLED STUMPS MARSH ITS
TRIBUTARIES EXTENDING FROM THE HEAD OF TIDE AT WHITEMARSH RUN AND
WINDLASS RUN AND GOING GENERALLY EASTERLY OR TOWARDS A LINE THAT
RUNS IN A NORTHERLY DIRECTION FROM THE NORTHERNMOST TIP OF A
PENINSULA CALLED STUMPFS MARSH TO THE OPPOSITE SHORELINE, BUT
EXCLUDING AN AREA THAT LIES BETWEEN STUMPFS MARSH AND A LINE 150
YARDS FROM THE SHORELINE OF STUMPFS MARSH;

(2)  Dorchester County: In Brannock Bay and Trippe's
Bay out and beyond a line drawn from Mills Point in a
northeastwardly direction to the southeast corner of what is
known as the Great Flats and from there to what is known as Weir
Point or Orchard Marsh; Todd's Bay; and out and beyond a line
drawn 300 yards northeast of Todd's Point and running
south-southeast to a point at the mouth of Chapel Creek known as
Mitchell's Point;

(3)  Kent County: Turners Creek and Chester River and
its tributaries within the county jurisdiction, except in chose
waters lying between Durding's Creek and Deep Point, or between
the property line of Wickliffe Farm and Cedar Point Farm near the
point known as Pine Tree Cove and Graveyard Point on Spencer Hall
Farm on Eastern Neck Island, and the Chesapeake Bay within the
county jurisdiction between the north end of Wilson's Point on
Trumpington Farm and the mouth of the Chester River.

(4)  Queen Anne's County: Prospect Bay, and in the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay adjacent to Poplar Island.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

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