Section 9-404 - Importing, transporting, or permitting infestation. - Maryland Statutes

§ 9-404. Importing, transporting, or permitting infestation.
 

(a)  Importing, transporting, or permitting infestation prohibited.- No person may: 

(1) Import or transport a noxious weed in the State in any form capable of growth; or 

(2) Contaminate any uninfested land with a noxious weed through the movement of rootstocks, seed, soil, mulch, nursery stock, farm machinery, or any other artificial medium. 

(b)  Care of infested lands.- Each landowner, including a landowner of public land, or person who possesses and manages land infested with a noxious weed shall eradicate or control the noxious weed on that land by using practices that the Secretary prescribes, including mowing, cultivating, or treating with an approved herbicide. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 48, § 203; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 6, § 1; 1979, ch. 153; 1984, ch. 362; 1987, ch. 484.]