Ch. 162 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Section 10-619

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

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

Article - Natural Resources

10-619.

Stationary blinds or blind sites may not be erected, maintained or licensed in the
following waters:

(1) Baltimore County: Middle River and its tributaries and westerly or
towards shore from a straight line drawn from the tip of Wilson Point in a southwesterly
direction to the northwest corner of Cape May beach; FROG MORTAR CREEK
FROM A STRAIGHT LINE DRAWN FROM THE TIP OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS
STRAWBERRY POINT IN A SOUTHEASTERLY DIRECTION ACROSS THE
CREEK TO THE TIP OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS GALLOWAY POINT AND
EXTENDING 1500 YARDS NORTHEAST UP THE CREEK TO THE POINT
WHERE GLENWOOD ROAD APPROACHES THE CREEK SHORELINE; Back
River and its tributaries west of the Eastern Avenue Bridge; and Bird River and its
tributaries extending from the head of tide at Whitemarsh Run and Windlass Run and
going generally easterly or towards a line that runs in a northerly direction from the
northernmost tip of a peninsula called Stumpfs Marsh to the opposite shoreline, but
excluding an area that lies between Stumpfs Marsh and a line 150 yards from the
shoreline of Stumpfs Marsh;

(2) Dorchester County: In Brannock Bay and Trippe's Bay out and beyond
a line drawn from Mills Point in a northeastwardly direction to the southeast corner of
what is known as the Great Flats and from there to what is known as Weir Point or
Orchard Marsh; Todd's Bay; and out and beyond a line drawn 300 yards northeast of
Todd's Point and running south-southeast to a point at the mouth of Chapel Creek
known as Mitchell's Point;

(3) Kent County: Turners Creek and Chester River and its tributaries
within the county jurisdiction, except in those waters lying between Durding's Creek
and Deep Point, or between the property line of Wickliffe Farm and Cedar Point Farm
near the point known as Pine Tree Cove and Graveyard Point on Spencer Hall Farm on
Eastern Neck Island, and the Chesapeake Bay within the county jurisdiction between
the north end of Wilson's Point on Trumpington Farm and the mouth of the Chester
River.

(4) Queen Anne's County: Prospect Bay, and in the waters of the
Chesapeake Bay adjacent to Poplar Island.

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