ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 227

(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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

Article - Natural Resources

10-301.

(a)     To provide a fund to pay the expense of protecting and managing wildlife,
and preventing unauthorized persons from hunting them, a person may not hunt or
attempt to hunt during open season and in any permitted manner any game birds and
mammals in the State without first having procured either a resident or nonresident
hunter's license. A person may not hunt or attempt to hunt nongame birds and
mammals in Baltimore County or Frederick County without first obtaining a license.
A permanent resident of a government reservation may obtain a resident hunter's
license.

(b)     [(1)] The following persons are not required to obtain a hunter's license or
bonus antlered deer stamp:

[(i)] (1) With respect to hunting on farmland only:

[1.] (I) [Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this
subsection, the] THE RESIDENT owner of the farmland and the owner's spouse,
children, and children's spouse; [and

2.] (II) A tenant and the tenant's spouse, children, and, if
residing on the farmland, children's spouse. A tenant is a person holding land under a
lease, or a sharecropper who resides in a dwelling on the land, but a tenant does not
include any employee of the owner or tenant; AND

(III) A NONRESIDENT OWNER OF A PARCEL OF FARMLAND LOCATED
IN MARYLAND AND AN ADJACENT STATE WHOSE PRIMARY RESIDENCE IS ON THAT
PARCEL, AND THE OWNER'S SPOUSE, CHILDREN, AND CHILDREN'S SPOUSE IF:

1. THE PARCEL OF FARMLAND IS LOCATED IN MARYLAND
AND AN ADJACENT STATE;

2.       THE OWNER'S PRIMARY RESIDENCE IS ON THE PARCEL
OF FARMLAND; AND

3.       THE ADJACENT STATE EXTENDS SIMILAR PRIVILEGES TO
A RESIDENT OF MARYLAND;

[(ii)] (2) Any resident serving in the armed forces of the United
States while on leave in the State, during the resident's leave period, if, while
hunting, the resident possesses a copy of the resident's official leave order; and

[(iii)] (3) Any unarmed person participating in an organized
foxhunt.

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