- (a) A person may not possess any live raccoon or opossum unless the person first procures a permit from the Department. Any raccoon or opossum reduced to possession by a hunter or trapper shall be immediately killed.
- (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, the owner of a marsh or the owner's employees may hunt any raccoon which destroys a muskrat or its home in a marsh area of the State at any time.
- (c) A landowner or the landowner's agent may set or use steel traps or similar devices at any time to trap raccoon or opossum which are damaging property.
- (d) A person may not cut a tree for the purpose of hunting or dislodging a raccoon or opossum without the consent of the owner of the tree.
Added by Acts 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 4, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1986, c. 805; Acts 1990, c. 6, § 2.
Formerly Art. 66C, § 178.