ACTION UNDER § 4-413 OF THE ENVIRONMENT ARTICLE AND THE MARYLAND
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WHICH MAY USE THE INFORMATION FOR
STATISTICAL PURPOSES.

(2) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL:

(I) MAINTAIN THE INFORMATION IN THE MANNER THAT
PROTECTS THE IDENTITY OF THE PERSON FOR WHOM THE PLAN IS PREPARED; AND

(II) MAKE ANY INFORMATION FROM A PLAN AVAILABLE TO THE
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF WATER
QUALITY PERMIT COMPLIANCE OR ENFORCEMENT ACCORDING TO TO SUPPORT THE
DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPLIANCE OR ENFORCEMENT CASE FOR PURPOSES OF
ADDRESSING AN EXISTING WATER QUALITY PROBLEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH
PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENTS AND THE STATE SOIL
CONSERVATION COMMITTEE.

[(b)] (C) As a condition to extending any benefit of this title to any land not
owned or controlled by the State or any of its agencies, or to performing work on them,
the supervisors may require contributions in money, services, materials, or otherwise
to any operations conferring benefits, and may require the land occupier to enter into
and perform agreements or covenants concerning the permanent use of the land as
tends to prevent or control erosion.

[(c)] (D) The supervisors of two or more districts may cooperate with one
another in the exercise of any powers conferred by this title.

[(d)] (E) No provision relating to acquisition, operation, or disposition of
property by other public bodies is applicable to a district, unless the provision
specifically so states.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 1999.

Approved May 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 448
(House Bill 711)

AN ACT concerning

Crimes - Aggravated Cruelty to Animals - Animals Used by a Law

Enforcement Unit

FOR the purpose of making it the felony of aggravated cruelty to animals be
intentionally mutilate, torture, cruelly boat, or cruelly kill an animal, cause the
cruel killing or intentional mutilation of an animal, use certain animals for
dogfighting or cockfighting, or intentionally inflict bodily harm, permanent
disability, or death on an animal owned or used by a law enforcement unit;