PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 689

CHAPTER 689
(House Bill 946)

AN ACT concerning

Game Birds and Game Mammals - Possession

FOR the purpose of allowing the possession of certain specimens of certain legally taken
game birds or game mammals for personal use; eliminating the requirement for a
permit to possess certain game birds and game mammals for food; allowing
possession of certain parts of certain game birds and game mammals for personal
use; allowing possession and sale of certain articles of commerce manufactured
from deer antlers for certain uses under certain circumstances; eliminating the
requirement for an importer of certain game birds or game mammals to accompany
them into the State; eliminating certain restrictions on the sale of certain game
birds, game mammals, and any parts of game birds or game mammals by certain
persons under certain circumstances; making certain provisions of this Act
contingent; and generally relating to possession of game birds and game mammals.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 10-404, 10-506(f), and 10-512(a)(3)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 10-404(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)
(As enacted by Chapter 572, Section 2 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1995)

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

Article - Natural Resources

10-404.

(a) (1) A person may not hunt or attempt to hunt any game bird or mammal
except during open [season, or] SEASON.

(2)     EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION OR AS AUTHORIZED UNDER
SUBTITLE 5 OR SUBTITLE 9 OF THIS TITLE, A PERSON MAY NOT possess any game bird
or mammal during any closed season whether hunted in the State or in another state,
territory, or country. [However, a]

(3)     A person may possess:

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