trapstercarl
02-01-2002, 05:38 PM
Here is all the info on the bill, Hearing is set for Wed, Feb 6th.
Unfortunately the red lettering will not show up in the post but all language between brackets [ and ] will be deleted and all new language is in all capitals. This bill is BAD BAD NEWS and they did not give us much time (again, lol).
Come on Maryland trappers we need to get signatures on petitions. Contact all your landowners and get them to call and sign.
For all the trappers across the country the toll free number is the number of the Environmental matters committee.
ALERT!! ALERT!!
THERE IS NO TIME TO SEND LETTERS, EITHER FAX, EMAIL OR CALL IMMEDIATELY!!!
HB377 Bill to ban foothold traps in the state of Maryland
Hearing Date is February 6, 2002 at 1:30 PM
Location: Environmental Matters Committee
Lowe House Office Building, Room 161
84 College Ave.
Annapolis, MD 21401 - 1991
(410) 841-3534, (301) 858-3534
1-800-492-7122, ext. 3534 (toll free)
fax: (410) 841-3409, (301) 858-3409
If there is any way possible, your presence in Annapolis would be greatly appreciated!
Please contact the following delegates and any delegates in your district, asking them to strongly oppose HB377. If you can not attend the hearing on Feb. 6th, we suggest that you use each delegates individual fax number to fax them a copy of your testimony. Any written testimony must be submitted before 12:45 PM February 6th, and you must have 35 copies of that testimony. Also, if you are doing a petition, again, you need 35 copies of each page of the petition submitted by the above date and time. At the bottom of this email, you will find a list of the delegates to contact, including their phone numbers, fax numbers, and email address. If you click on their email address, it should take you directly to them. If that doesn't work, copy and paste it into your email TO: line. There is also an attachment of the delegates so you can print it.
The following is a copy of the wording of HB377. When you read it, omit the wording in red and you will read it as it will be put into law.
HOUSE BILL 377
Unofficial Copy 2002 Regular Session
M2 2lr0384
__________________________________________________ ______________________
By: Delegates Frush, Bobo, Boschert, Bronrott, Clagett, Conroy, Conway,
Cryor, Goldwater, Grosfeld, Hubbard, Kopp, Krysiak, Nathan-Pulliam,
Petzold, Pitkin, Rosso, Rzepkowski, Sher, Stern, Barve, Mandel,
Dembrow, Shriver, and Hammen
Introduced and read first time: January 28, 2002
Assigned to: Environmental Matters
__________________________________________________ ______________________
A BILL ENTITLED
1 AN ACT concerning
2 Natural Resources - Leghold Traps - Prohibition
3 FOR the purpose of expanding the prohibition against using, setting, placing, or
4 maintaining a leghold trap to apply statewide; clarifying that certain persons
5 may not use, set, place, or maintain a leghold trap to trap certain animals; and
6 generally relating to prohibiting the use, setting, placing, and maintaining of
7 leghold traps.
8 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
9 Article - Natural Resources
10 Section 10-408.1(a), 10-410(o), 10-414, and 10-504
11 Annotated Code of Maryland
12 (2000 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
13 SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
14 MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
15 Article - Natural Resources
16 10-408.1.
17 (a) A person, while trapping or attempting to trap animals, may not place, set,
18 maintain, or operate any snares[,] OR body-gripping[, or leghold] traps within 150
19 yards of a permanent human residence.
20 10-410.
21 (o) [(1) In Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Montgomery, and Prince George's
22 counties, a] A person may not use, set, place, or maintain any [steel jaw] leghold trap
23 [on land. The steel jaw leghold trap may be used for the capture of fur-bearing
24 mammals in water only.
25 (2) This subsection does not apply to:
2 HOUSE BILL 377
1 (i) Traps set on farmland by the owner of the farmland, by the
2 owner's agent or tenant, owner's lessee, or by any member of the owner's or tenant's
3 immediate family who resides on the farmland; or
4 (ii) Traps set by an authorized agent of the Maryland Forest, Park
5 and Wildlife Service who exercises the agent's duties for wildlife control under
6 guidelines established by the Department].
7 10-414.
8 (a) A person may not possess any live raccoon or opossum unless the person
9 first procures a permit from the Department. Any raccoon or opossum reduced to
10 possession by a hunter or trapper shall be immediately killed.
11 (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, the owner of a marsh or
12 the owner's employees may hunt any raccoon which destroys a muskrat or its home in
13 a marsh area of the State at any time.
14 (c) [A] SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION, A landowner or the
15 landowner's agent may set or use steel traps or similar devices at any time to trap
16 raccoon or opossum which are damaging property.
17 (d) A PERSON MAY NOT USE, SET, PLACE, OR MAINTAIN A LEGHOLD TRAP TO
18 TRAP RACCOON OR OPOSSUM.
19 (E) A person may not cut a tree for the purpose of hunting or dislodging a
20 raccoon or opossum without the consent of the owner of the tree.
21
21 10-504.
22 (a) [A] SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION, A person may not
23 hunt any muskrat, beaver, or otter in any manner except by trapping. A person may
24 not dig into or in any manner molest or destroy any part of a muskrat, beaver, or otter
25 den or house. A person may not possess at any time the hide or skin of any muskrat,
26 beaver, or otter which has been caught in any way except by trapping, and any
27 muskrat, beaver, or otter hide or skin which has been punctured by a hole which
28 appears to be a shot or bullet hole shall be prima facie evidence that the muskrat,
29 beaver, or otter was killed illegally.
30 (b) A person may not possess at any time a light for the purpose of hunting
31 muskrats, beaver, or otter at nighttime. Possession of a light shall be prima facie
32 evidence that the light was intended for this purpose.
33 (c) [A] SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION, A landowner or the
34 landowner's lessee shall have the exclusive right to trap for muskrats down to the
35 mean low watermark or on marsh land adjacent to the landowner's land. A person
36 may not enter upon or place traps upon the land without first obtaining the written
37 consent of the landowner or the landowner's lessee.
38
3 HOUSE BILL 377
1 (D) A PERSON MAY NOT USE, SET, PLACE, OR MAINTAIN A LEGHOLD TRAP TO
2 TRAP A MUSKRAT, BEAVER, OR OTTER.
3 SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
4 October 1, 2002.
As you read down across the wording of the Bill, the actual final reading will be "A person may not use, set, place, or maintain any leghold trap"
Delegates to contact to stop HB377, a Bill to ban foothold traps!
John Adams Hurson, Chair (410) 841-3534, (301) 858-3534 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3534 (toll free) e-mail: john_hurson@house.state.md.us District 18, Montgomery County. fax: (301) 858-3850, (410) 841-3850
Michael H. Weir, Vice-Chair (410) 841-3384, (301) 858-3384 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3384 (toll free) District 6, Baltimore County & Harford County. fax: (410) 841-3850
Robert C. Baldwin 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3223 (toll free) or (410) 841-3223, (301) 858-3223
e-mail: robert_baldwin@house.state.md.us District 33, Anne Arundel County. fax: (410) 841-3209
Leon G. Billings 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3028 (toll free) or (301) 858-3028, (410) 841-3028
e-mail: leon_billings@house.state.md.us District 18, Montgomery County. fax: (301) 858-3850, (410) 841-3850
Charles R. Boutin 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3289 (toll free) or (410) 841-3289, (301) 858-3289
e-mail: charles_boutin@house.state.md.us District 34, Harford County. fax: (410) 841-3850
Rudolph C. Cane (410) 841-3427, (301) 858-3427 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3427 (toll free) District 37A, Dorchester & Wicomico Counties. fax: (410) 841-3207
Dereck E. Davis (301) 858-3076, (410) 841-3076 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3076 (toll free) e-mail: dereck_davis@house.state.md.us District 25, Prince George's County. fax: (301) 858-3403, (410) 841-3403
Donald B. Elliott (410) 841-3107, (301) 858-3107 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3107 (toll free) e-mail: donald_elliott@house.state.md.us District 4B, Carroll & Frederick Counties. fax: (410) 841-3349, (301) 858-3349
Barbara A. Frush (301) 858-3114, (410) 841-3114 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3114 (toll free) e-mail: barbara_frush@house.state.md.us District 21, Prince George's & Montgomery Counties.
fax: (301) 858-3116, (410) 841-3116
Peter A. Hammen (410) 841-3303 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3303 (toll free)
District 46, Baltimore City & Baltimore County. fax: (410) 841-3305
James W. Hubbard (301) 858-3103, (410) 841-3103 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3103 (toll free)
e-mail: james_hubbard@house.state.md.us District 23, Prince George's County.
fax: (301) 858-3234, (410) 841-3234
Katherine Klausmeier 410) 841-3365, (301) 858-3365 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3365 (toll free)
e-mail: katherine_klausmeier@house.state.md.us District 8, Baltimore County & Baltimore City .
fax: (410) 841-1127
Jacob J. Mohorovic, Jr. (410) 841-3334, (301) 858-3334 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3334 (toll free)
e-mail: jacob_mohorovic@house.state.md.us District 7, Baltimore County. fax: (410) 841-3177
Dan K. Morhaim (410) 841-3342, (301) 858-3342 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3342 (toll free)
e-mail: dan_morhaim@house.state.md.us District 11, Baltimore County. fax: (410) 841-3385
Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (410) 841-3350, (301) 858-3350 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3350 (toll free)
e-mail: shirley_nathan_pulliam@house.state.md.us District 10, Baltimore City & Baltimore County.
fax: (410) 841-3422
Nathaniel T. Oaks (410) 841-3283, (301) 858-3283 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3283 (toll free)
District 41, Baltimore City. fax: (410) 841-3422
George W. Owings III (301) 858-3231, (410) 841-3231 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3231 (toll free)
e-mail: george_owings@house.state.md.us District 27B, Calvert & Anne Arundel Counties.
fax: (301) 858-3252, (410) 841-3252
Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. (410) 841-3365, (301) 858-3365 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3365 (toll free)
e-mail: alfred_redmer@house.state.md.us District 8, Baltimore County & Baltimore City.
fax: (410) 841-1149
Kenneth D. Schisler (410) 841-3429, (301) 858-3429 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3429 (toll free)
e-mail: kenneth_schisler@house.state.md.us District 37B, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester & Wicomico Counties.
fax: (410) 841-3850
Tod D. Sher (301) 858-3052, (410) 841-3052 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3052 (toll free)
e-mail: tod_david_sher@house.state.md.us District 14A, Montgomery County.
fax: (301) 858-3850, (410) 841-3850
Joan F. Stern (301) 858-3037, (410) 841-3037 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3037 (toll free)
e-mail: joan_stern@house.state.md.us District 39, Montgomery County.
fax: (301) 858-3003, (410) 841-3003
Paul S. Stull (301) 858-3107, (410) 841-3107 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3107 (toll free)
e-mail: paul_stull@house.state.md.us District 4A, Frederick County. fax: (301) 858-3349, (410) 841-3349
Unfortunately the red lettering will not show up in the post but all language between brackets [ and ] will be deleted and all new language is in all capitals. This bill is BAD BAD NEWS and they did not give us much time (again, lol).
Come on Maryland trappers we need to get signatures on petitions. Contact all your landowners and get them to call and sign.
For all the trappers across the country the toll free number is the number of the Environmental matters committee.
ALERT!! ALERT!!
THERE IS NO TIME TO SEND LETTERS, EITHER FAX, EMAIL OR CALL IMMEDIATELY!!!
HB377 Bill to ban foothold traps in the state of Maryland
Hearing Date is February 6, 2002 at 1:30 PM
Location: Environmental Matters Committee
Lowe House Office Building, Room 161
84 College Ave.
Annapolis, MD 21401 - 1991
(410) 841-3534, (301) 858-3534
1-800-492-7122, ext. 3534 (toll free)
fax: (410) 841-3409, (301) 858-3409
If there is any way possible, your presence in Annapolis would be greatly appreciated!
Please contact the following delegates and any delegates in your district, asking them to strongly oppose HB377. If you can not attend the hearing on Feb. 6th, we suggest that you use each delegates individual fax number to fax them a copy of your testimony. Any written testimony must be submitted before 12:45 PM February 6th, and you must have 35 copies of that testimony. Also, if you are doing a petition, again, you need 35 copies of each page of the petition submitted by the above date and time. At the bottom of this email, you will find a list of the delegates to contact, including their phone numbers, fax numbers, and email address. If you click on their email address, it should take you directly to them. If that doesn't work, copy and paste it into your email TO: line. There is also an attachment of the delegates so you can print it.
The following is a copy of the wording of HB377. When you read it, omit the wording in red and you will read it as it will be put into law.
HOUSE BILL 377
Unofficial Copy 2002 Regular Session
M2 2lr0384
__________________________________________________ ______________________
By: Delegates Frush, Bobo, Boschert, Bronrott, Clagett, Conroy, Conway,
Cryor, Goldwater, Grosfeld, Hubbard, Kopp, Krysiak, Nathan-Pulliam,
Petzold, Pitkin, Rosso, Rzepkowski, Sher, Stern, Barve, Mandel,
Dembrow, Shriver, and Hammen
Introduced and read first time: January 28, 2002
Assigned to: Environmental Matters
__________________________________________________ ______________________
A BILL ENTITLED
1 AN ACT concerning
2 Natural Resources - Leghold Traps - Prohibition
3 FOR the purpose of expanding the prohibition against using, setting, placing, or
4 maintaining a leghold trap to apply statewide; clarifying that certain persons
5 may not use, set, place, or maintain a leghold trap to trap certain animals; and
6 generally relating to prohibiting the use, setting, placing, and maintaining of
7 leghold traps.
8 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
9 Article - Natural Resources
10 Section 10-408.1(a), 10-410(o), 10-414, and 10-504
11 Annotated Code of Maryland
12 (2000 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
13 SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
14 MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
15 Article - Natural Resources
16 10-408.1.
17 (a) A person, while trapping or attempting to trap animals, may not place, set,
18 maintain, or operate any snares[,] OR body-gripping[, or leghold] traps within 150
19 yards of a permanent human residence.
20 10-410.
21 (o) [(1) In Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Montgomery, and Prince George's
22 counties, a] A person may not use, set, place, or maintain any [steel jaw] leghold trap
23 [on land. The steel jaw leghold trap may be used for the capture of fur-bearing
24 mammals in water only.
25 (2) This subsection does not apply to:
2 HOUSE BILL 377
1 (i) Traps set on farmland by the owner of the farmland, by the
2 owner's agent or tenant, owner's lessee, or by any member of the owner's or tenant's
3 immediate family who resides on the farmland; or
4 (ii) Traps set by an authorized agent of the Maryland Forest, Park
5 and Wildlife Service who exercises the agent's duties for wildlife control under
6 guidelines established by the Department].
7 10-414.
8 (a) A person may not possess any live raccoon or opossum unless the person
9 first procures a permit from the Department. Any raccoon or opossum reduced to
10 possession by a hunter or trapper shall be immediately killed.
11 (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, the owner of a marsh or
12 the owner's employees may hunt any raccoon which destroys a muskrat or its home in
13 a marsh area of the State at any time.
14 (c) [A] SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION, A landowner or the
15 landowner's agent may set or use steel traps or similar devices at any time to trap
16 raccoon or opossum which are damaging property.
17 (d) A PERSON MAY NOT USE, SET, PLACE, OR MAINTAIN A LEGHOLD TRAP TO
18 TRAP RACCOON OR OPOSSUM.
19 (E) A person may not cut a tree for the purpose of hunting or dislodging a
20 raccoon or opossum without the consent of the owner of the tree.
21
21 10-504.
22 (a) [A] SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION, A person may not
23 hunt any muskrat, beaver, or otter in any manner except by trapping. A person may
24 not dig into or in any manner molest or destroy any part of a muskrat, beaver, or otter
25 den or house. A person may not possess at any time the hide or skin of any muskrat,
26 beaver, or otter which has been caught in any way except by trapping, and any
27 muskrat, beaver, or otter hide or skin which has been punctured by a hole which
28 appears to be a shot or bullet hole shall be prima facie evidence that the muskrat,
29 beaver, or otter was killed illegally.
30 (b) A person may not possess at any time a light for the purpose of hunting
31 muskrats, beaver, or otter at nighttime. Possession of a light shall be prima facie
32 evidence that the light was intended for this purpose.
33 (c) [A] SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION, A landowner or the
34 landowner's lessee shall have the exclusive right to trap for muskrats down to the
35 mean low watermark or on marsh land adjacent to the landowner's land. A person
36 may not enter upon or place traps upon the land without first obtaining the written
37 consent of the landowner or the landowner's lessee.
38
3 HOUSE BILL 377
1 (D) A PERSON MAY NOT USE, SET, PLACE, OR MAINTAIN A LEGHOLD TRAP TO
2 TRAP A MUSKRAT, BEAVER, OR OTTER.
3 SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
4 October 1, 2002.
As you read down across the wording of the Bill, the actual final reading will be "A person may not use, set, place, or maintain any leghold trap"
Delegates to contact to stop HB377, a Bill to ban foothold traps!
John Adams Hurson, Chair (410) 841-3534, (301) 858-3534 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3534 (toll free) e-mail: john_hurson@house.state.md.us District 18, Montgomery County. fax: (301) 858-3850, (410) 841-3850
Michael H. Weir, Vice-Chair (410) 841-3384, (301) 858-3384 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3384 (toll free) District 6, Baltimore County & Harford County. fax: (410) 841-3850
Robert C. Baldwin 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3223 (toll free) or (410) 841-3223, (301) 858-3223
e-mail: robert_baldwin@house.state.md.us District 33, Anne Arundel County. fax: (410) 841-3209
Leon G. Billings 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3028 (toll free) or (301) 858-3028, (410) 841-3028
e-mail: leon_billings@house.state.md.us District 18, Montgomery County. fax: (301) 858-3850, (410) 841-3850
Charles R. Boutin 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3289 (toll free) or (410) 841-3289, (301) 858-3289
e-mail: charles_boutin@house.state.md.us District 34, Harford County. fax: (410) 841-3850
Rudolph C. Cane (410) 841-3427, (301) 858-3427 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3427 (toll free) District 37A, Dorchester & Wicomico Counties. fax: (410) 841-3207
Dereck E. Davis (301) 858-3076, (410) 841-3076 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3076 (toll free) e-mail: dereck_davis@house.state.md.us District 25, Prince George's County. fax: (301) 858-3403, (410) 841-3403
Donald B. Elliott (410) 841-3107, (301) 858-3107 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3107 (toll free) e-mail: donald_elliott@house.state.md.us District 4B, Carroll & Frederick Counties. fax: (410) 841-3349, (301) 858-3349
Barbara A. Frush (301) 858-3114, (410) 841-3114 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3114 (toll free) e-mail: barbara_frush@house.state.md.us District 21, Prince George's & Montgomery Counties.
fax: (301) 858-3116, (410) 841-3116
Peter A. Hammen (410) 841-3303 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3303 (toll free)
District 46, Baltimore City & Baltimore County. fax: (410) 841-3305
James W. Hubbard (301) 858-3103, (410) 841-3103 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3103 (toll free)
e-mail: james_hubbard@house.state.md.us District 23, Prince George's County.
fax: (301) 858-3234, (410) 841-3234
Katherine Klausmeier 410) 841-3365, (301) 858-3365 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3365 (toll free)
e-mail: katherine_klausmeier@house.state.md.us District 8, Baltimore County & Baltimore City .
fax: (410) 841-1127
Jacob J. Mohorovic, Jr. (410) 841-3334, (301) 858-3334 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3334 (toll free)
e-mail: jacob_mohorovic@house.state.md.us District 7, Baltimore County. fax: (410) 841-3177
Dan K. Morhaim (410) 841-3342, (301) 858-3342 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3342 (toll free)
e-mail: dan_morhaim@house.state.md.us District 11, Baltimore County. fax: (410) 841-3385
Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (410) 841-3350, (301) 858-3350 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3350 (toll free)
e-mail: shirley_nathan_pulliam@house.state.md.us District 10, Baltimore City & Baltimore County.
fax: (410) 841-3422
Nathaniel T. Oaks (410) 841-3283, (301) 858-3283 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3283 (toll free)
District 41, Baltimore City. fax: (410) 841-3422
George W. Owings III (301) 858-3231, (410) 841-3231 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3231 (toll free)
e-mail: george_owings@house.state.md.us District 27B, Calvert & Anne Arundel Counties.
fax: (301) 858-3252, (410) 841-3252
Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. (410) 841-3365, (301) 858-3365 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3365 (toll free)
e-mail: alfred_redmer@house.state.md.us District 8, Baltimore County & Baltimore City.
fax: (410) 841-1149
Kenneth D. Schisler (410) 841-3429, (301) 858-3429 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3429 (toll free)
e-mail: kenneth_schisler@house.state.md.us District 37B, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester & Wicomico Counties.
fax: (410) 841-3850
Tod D. Sher (301) 858-3052, (410) 841-3052 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3052 (toll free)
e-mail: tod_david_sher@house.state.md.us District 14A, Montgomery County.
fax: (301) 858-3850, (410) 841-3850
Joan F. Stern (301) 858-3037, (410) 841-3037 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3037 (toll free)
e-mail: joan_stern@house.state.md.us District 39, Montgomery County.
fax: (301) 858-3003, (410) 841-3003
Paul S. Stull (301) 858-3107, (410) 841-3107 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3107 (toll free)
e-mail: paul_stull@house.state.md.us District 4A, Frederick County. fax: (301) 858-3349, (410) 841-3349