Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 4-901 - Rules and regulations pertaining to lobster(a) The Department may adopt rules and regulations to: (1) Restrict the possession, landing, selling, or transporting of any lobster or lobster parts; and(2) Establish minimum size limits for lobsters.(b) The Department shall publish a notice of any lobster harvest regulations proposed under this section, and of any subsequent amendments to the regulations, and shall hold a public hearing on the proposal unless a public hearing on a substantially similar proposal has been conducted in the State by a federal management authority with notice advertised by the Department as required by this section. The notice shall include the time and place of any hearing.Amended by 2019 Md. Laws, Ch. 8,Sec. 1, eff. 3/27/2019.Amended by 2013 Md. Laws, Ch. 173,Sec. 1, eff. 7/1/2013.