HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland or other natural terrain
and includes, but is not limited to four-wheel drive or
low-pressure-tire vehicles, motorcycles and related
two-wheel vehicles, amphibious machines, ground-effect, or
air-cushion vehicles.

(2) "Off-road vehicle" does not include any
boat, [snowmobile,] military, fire or law-enforcement
vehicle, farm-type tractors and other agricultural equipment
used for agricultural purposes or earth moving, or
construction equipment while used for those purposes, lawn
mowers, snowblowers, garden or lawn tractors or golf carts
while being used for their designed purpose.

(b) No person may operate or use an off-road vehicle
on private property, except when traveling on clearly
designated private driveways, without written permission of
the owner or tenant of the property, or to operate or use an
off-road vehicle on property owned OR LEASED by the State or
any other of its political subdivisions except as permitted
by law. Any person convicted of this offense is guilty of a
misdemeanor and subject to a fine of no more than $250.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 814

(House Bill 149)

AN ACT concerning

Primary Elections - Withdrawal of Candidates

FOR the purpose of changing the time period for withdrawal
         of a certificate of candidacy; changing the time period

in which certain candidates for the office of President
of the United States may withdraw as a candidate for
nomination; renumbering certain sections of Article 33;
deleting duplicative provisions; and clarifying
language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code
Section 9-l(a)(l) and 12-2
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)