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Maryland Natural Resources Captive Wildlife

Statute Details
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Citation: MD NAT RES � 10-901

Citation: Md. Nat. Resources Code Ann. � 10-901

Summary: This Maryland statute states that it is in the state's public interest to preserve native species by strictly regulating the possession, importation, exportation, breeding, raising, protection, rehabilitation, hunting, killing, trapping, capture, purchase, or sale of certain wildlife which pose a possibility of harm to native wildlife.

Statute in Full:

The General Assembly finds and declares that it is in the public interest to insure the conservation, preservation, and condition of wildlife native to Maryland, by strictly regulating in the State the possession, importation, exportation, breeding, raising, protection, rehabilitation, hunting, killing, trapping, capture, purchase, or sale of certain wildlife which pose a possibility of:

(1) Harmful competition to native wildlife;

(2) The introduction of a disease or pest harmful to native wildlife;

(3) Problems of enforcing laws and regulations relative to wildlife; or

(4) Threatening native wildlife or other natural resources.

CREDIT(S)

Acts 1986, c. 805; Acts 1990, c. 6, § 2.

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