COMAR 08.03.13.08. Penalties

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Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 08 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES › Subtitle 03 WILDLIFE › Chapter 13 Regulated Shooting Areas › COMAR 08.03.13.08

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A. Revocation and Suspension.

(1) The Service may revoke or suspend a regulated shooting area permit for any violation of this chapter or of the terms of the permit.

(2) If a regulated shooting ground permit is suspended, a new permit may not be issued for that regulated shooting ground, regardless of who applies, until the period of suspension ends.

B. Additional Penalties.

(1) For the purposes of this section a second or subsequent conviction is a violation that has occurred within 2 years of the first conviction and that arises out of a separate set of circumstances than the first conviction.

(2) In addition to any other penalty provided by this chapter or Natural Resources Article, Annotated Code of Maryland , if a person who holds a permit to establish and operate a regulated shooting ground under this chapter or any other guest of that person is convicted of violating on the premises of the regulated shooting area a provision of State or federal law or regulation that establishes daily or seasonal bag limits, prohibits baiting, or prohibits the hunting of wetland game birds on a regulated shooting area by the use or aid of live birds as decoys, the Director shall suspend the permit:

(a) For the first conviction, for the following permit year; and

(b) For the second or subsequent conviction, for the following 2 permit years.

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