1. A. Revocation and Suspension.

   1. (1) The Service may revoke or suspend a regulated shooting area permit for any violation of this chapter or of the terms of the permit.
   2. (2) If a regulated shooting ground permit is suspended, a new permit may not be issued for that regulated shooting ground, regardless of who applies, until the period of suspension ends.

2. B. Additional Penalties.

   1. (1) For the purposes of this section a second or subsequent conviction is a violation that has occurred within 2 years of the first conviction and that arises out of a separate set of circumstances than the first conviction.

   2. (2) In addition to any other penalty provided by this chapter or Natural Resources Article, Annotated Code of Maryland, if a person who holds a permit to establish and operate a regulated shooting ground under this chapter or any other guest of that person is convicted of violating on the premises of the regulated shooting area a provision of State or federal law or regulation that establishes daily or seasonal bag limits, prohibits baiting, or prohibits the hunting of wetland game birds on a regulated shooting area by the use or aid of live birds as decoys, the Director shall suspend the permit:

      1. (a) For the first conviction, for the following permit year; and
      2. (b) For the second or subsequent conviction, for the following 2 permit years.

Authority: Natural Resource Article, §§10-205, 10-206, 10-301, 10-404—10-409, 10-415, 10-418, 10-601.1, 10-902, 10-903, and 10-906, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: October 14, 2002 (29:20 Md. R. 1597)

Regulation .02D amended effective August 13, 2007 (34:16 Md. R. 1431)

Regulation .04 amended effective August 13, 2007 (34:16 Md. R. 1431)

Regulation .04A amended effective August 24, 2020 (47:17 Md. R. 796)

Regulation .05A amended as an emergency provision effective April 1, 2010 (37:9 Md. R. 672); emergency status expired effective April 30, 2010

Regulation .05A amended effective August 23, 2010 (37:17 Md. R. 1184)

Regulation .05D amended effective August 13, 2007 (34:16 Md. R. 1431)

Regulation .05E amended effective August 11, 2008 (35:16 Md. R. 1390)

Regulation .05G, H amended effective August 24, 2020 (47:17 Md. R. 796)

Regulation .06E amended and G adopted effective August 13, 2007 (34:16 Md. R. 1431)