Ch. 567

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 567
(Senate Bill 234)

AN ACT concerning

Wildland and Open Areas - Designation of New Wildlands

FOR the purpose of expanding the State wildland program by designating certain
additional areas of the State as State Wildland; and generally relating to wildland
areas in the State.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 5-1203(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 5-1203(h), (k), and (m)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources

Section 5-1203(cc) through (ee)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1989 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

Article - Natural Resources

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

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