PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                            S.B. 201

Dear Mr. President:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the Maryland Constitution, I have today
vetoed Senate Bill 201.

This bill allows a person to import, sell or exchange domestically raised venison and
requires records to be kept.

House Bill 382, which was passed by the General Assembly and signed by me on May 14,
1996, accomplishes the same purpose. Therefore, it is not necessary for me to sign Senate
Bill 201.

Sincerely,

Parris N. Glendening

Governor

Senate Bill No. 201

AN ACT concerning

Prohibition Against Hunting, Importing, and Selling Game - Exception

FOR the purpose of authorizing an exception to a certain prohibition against hunting,
importing, and selling game birds or game mammals where a person imports,
possesses, sells, offers for sale, purchases, offers to purchase, barters, or exchanges
imported, domestically raised, officially inspected, processed, and lawfully obtained
deer meat venison, other than white-tailed and sika deer meat venison; specifying
record keeping requirements for the importation and sale of certain deer meat
venison; providing for the construction of this Act; defining a certain term; and
generally relating to certain exceptions from a certain prohibition against hunting,
importing, and selling game birds or game mammals.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 10-404
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 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

10-404.

(A) IN THIS SECTION. "OFFICIALLY INSPECTED" MEANS VENISON INSPECTED
AND PASSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS ESTABLISHED BY THE:

(1) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA); OR

(2) U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE: OR

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