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<section number="5B-105" name="Prohibitions" law="code" slug="sec-5b-105" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_5BCHBACRAR_DIV1AGLAMA_SD3CRNEFA_S5B-105PR">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In a Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Overlay Zone, new farmland may not be created:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>By diking, draining, or filling of any class or subclass of wetlands, as described in the Code of Maryland Regulations ("COMAR") 14.15.09.02 and in Subtitle 5B, which have a seasonally flooded or wetter than seasonably flooded water regime, unless mitigation is accomplished as provided by COMAR 14.15.09.02; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>By clearing of forests and woodland or soils with a slope of greater than fifteen percent (15%); or on soils with "K value" greater than thirty-five percent (35%) and a slope greater than five percent (5%); or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In the vegetated Buffer as defined in Section 5B-102(a)(4) existing (as of May 13, 1986) landward from the Mean High Water Line of tidal waters, tributary streams, and tidal wetlands; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>If the clearing adversely affects water quality or will destroy wildlife habitat, as defined in COMAR 14.15.09 and in the Environmental Technical Manual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The prohibitions contained in this Subdivision shall be included on every Soil Conservation and Water Quality Plan filed.</text>
  </level>
</section>
