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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 278
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CHAPTER 278
(Senate Bill 417)
AN ACT concerning
Somerset County - Power Dredging - Oysters
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to grant
permits to persons before allowing them to catch oysters with a power dredge in
Somerset County certain counties; authorizing the Department to issue a power
dredge permit to holders of an oyster harvester license; prohibiting persons
permitted to catch oysters with a power dredge from harvesting oysters by any
other method on certain days; providing for the termination of this Act; and
generally relating to harvesting oysters with a power dredge.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-1014, 4-1014.1, 4-1014.2, and 4-1014.3
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Natural Resources
4-1014.
(a) This section applies only to the waters of the State that lie contiguous to
Somerset County in the Chesapeake Bay.
(b) A person shall be [licensed] PERMITTED by the Department before the
person may catch oysters with a power dredge in the waters of the State that lie
contiguous to Somerset County, as described in subsection (a) of this section.
(c) (1) A person may [not] hold an oyster harvester license and a power
dredge [license] PERMIT simultaneously.
(2) The Department[:
(i) May] MAY issue a power dredge [license] PERMIT only to the
holder of an oyster harvester license [; and
(ii) Shall suspend a person's oyster harvester license on issuance of
a power dredge license until the time that the holder surrenders the power dredge
license to the Department].
(3) [(i) If a person wants to reobtain the person's previously valid
oyster harvester license, the person shall return the person's currently valid power
dredging license to the Department.
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