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<section article="gnr" article_name="Natural Resources" number="10-901" title_number="10" title_name="Wildlife" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Captive Wildlife">
  <text>The General Assembly finds and declares that it is in the public interest to insure the conservation, preservation, and condition of wildlife native to Maryland, by strictly regulating in the State the possession, importation, exportation, breeding, raising, protection, rehabilitation, hunting, killing, trapping, capture, purchase, or sale of certain wildlife which pose a possibility of:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Harmful competition to native wildlife;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>The introduction of a disease or pest harmful to native wildlife;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Problems of enforcing laws and regulations relative to wildlife; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Threatening native wildlife or other natural resources.</text>
  </level>
</section>
