§ 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.

HISTORY: 1986, ch. 805; 1990, ch. 6, § 2; 2007, ch. 5, § 7.