Section 10-902 - Permits and licenses. - Maryland Statutes

§ 10-902. Permits and licenses.
 

(a)  Required.- Any person desiring to possess, import, export, breed, raise, protect, rehabilitate, hunt, kill, trap, capture, purchase, or sell any wildlife, native to Maryland, shall first obtain a permit or license from the Department. 

(b)  Regulations; types and classes; exemptions; sanitary regulations; records.- The Secretary shall establish by regulation: 

(1) The types and classes of permits and licenses which shall be issued; 

(2) The species of wildlife exempt from the permit and license requirement; 

(3) Sanitary housing or any other conditions which are necessary for the humane, safe, and healthy possession of wildlife; 

(4) Conditions under which captive wildlife may be hunted or released to the wild; and 

(5) Record keeping requirements. 

(c)  Fees.- The Secretary shall charge a reasonable fee for each permit or license. 
 

[1986, ch. 805; 1990, ch. 6, § 2; 2007, ch. 5, § 7.]