PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 350

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1989 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 5-1203(c), (d), (j), and (1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources

Section 5-1203(o) through (aa) (bb) 5-1203(b-1), (e-1), and (o) through (bb),

5-1212.1, and 5-1213.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article - Natural Resources

Part II. Wildland Areas.
5-1203.

(a) In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding
settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the
State, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural
condition, it is the policy of the General Assembly to secure for the people of present and
future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of State wildlands. For this
purpose there is established a State wildlands preservation system composed of areas in
the State designated by the General Assembly as "wildland areas". The wildland areas
shall be administered for the use and enjoyment of the people of Maryland in a manner
that will leave them unimpaired for the future use and enjoyment as wildlands, to provide
for their protection, preservation of their wildland character, and for gathering and
dissemination of information regarding their use and enjoyment as wildlands. A State
land may not be designated as "wildland areas" except as provided for in this section or by
a subsequent act.

(B-1) PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION THAT
PROPERTY IN GARRETT COUNTY CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 650 ACRES AND
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS ISA TYPE 1 STATE WILDLAND AND SHALL BE NAMED THE
"HIGHROCK WILDLAND":

BEGINNING ATA STONE MARKED "BP 129" AND WITNESSED BY A PIPE STAMPED 582,
SAID STONE ALSO BEING A CORNER OF THE SAVAGE RIVER STATE FOREST BOUNDARY
ON THE WESTERN SLOPE OF BIG SAVAGE MOUNTAIN AND THEN RUNNING NORTH 38
DEGREES 18 MINUTES EAST 3703.31 FEET TO A STONE MARKED "BP 128"AND WITNESSED
BY A PIPE STAMPED 581 AND THEN RUNNING NORTH 54 DEGREES 23 MINUTES EAST
5500.00 FEET MORE OR LESS TO A POINT ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF PINE SWAMP ROAD,

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