Title 2. Maryland Geological Survey — Subtitle 4. State Boundary Monuments

Any monument which marks the common boundary between the State and any adjacent state, commonwealth, or district is the joint property of the State and the adjoining state, commonwealth, or district.

The Survey shall examine, at least once every ten years, every monument which marks the boundaries of the State. Whenever the Survey finds the monument is lost, removed, or displaced causing the boundary to become obscure, inaccurate, or incorrect, it shall cooperate with the proper officials and agencies of the adjacent state, commonwealth, or district to replace, restore, or repair the monuments on the common boundary line. The Survey, on behalf of the State, may make any joint agreement or contract with appropriate officials or agencies of any adjacent state, commonwealth, or district, and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, or any similar disinterested party or agency, to resurvey, remark, or otherwise delineate more clearly any part of any common boundary between the State and any adjacent state, commonwealth, or district. In any resurvey, the present established boundaries of the State shall be preserved with the greatest possible fidelity.

The Survey may enter on any public or private property to examine any boundary monument. However, the Survey may not enter during the growing season on any land planted with crops which might be damaged by any entry.

A person may not move, remove, break, mutilate, deface, destroy, or otherwise injure any monument marking any boundary between the State and any adjacent state, commonwealth, or district. Any person who possesses any monument previously placed, or prepared to be placed, on any State boundary, upon demand by the Survey, shall surrender and deliver the monument to the Survey.

The Natural Resources police officers and forest or park wardens of the State have the power of arrest and other powers necessary to enforce this subtitle.

This section does not require either the Maryland Historical Society or the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to surrender or deliver to the Department the Mason and Dixon Monument placed in the custody of each society by the mutual consent of the State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1902.

Any person who violates any provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50 for each offense with costs imposed in the discretion of the court.