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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".11" citation="COMAR 08.03.04.11" title_num="08" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="04" heading="Hunting Wild Turkeys and Black Bear Over Bait.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Definitions.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Baited area” means any area where shelled, shucked, or unshucked corn, wheat, other grain, or other feed capable of luring, attracting, or enticing wild turkeys or black bears is directly or indirectly placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered. An area is considered a baited area for 10 days following complete removal of all corn, wheat, other grain, or other feed.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Baiting” means the placing, exposing, depositing, distributing, or scattering of shelled, shucked, or unshucked corn, wheat, other grain, or other feed so as to constitute for wild turkeys or black bears a lure, attraction, or enticement to, on, or over any areas where hunters are attempting to take wild turkeys or black bears.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A person may not take or attempt to take wild turkeys or black bears by the aid of baiting, or on or over any baited area if the person knows or reasonably should know that the area is a baited area.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>This regulation does not prohibit the taking of wild turkeys or black bears on or over:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Standing crops, grain crops properly shucked on the field where grown, or grains found scattered solely as the result of normal agricultural planting or harvesting.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Lands where shelled, shucked, or unshucked corn, wheat, other grain, or other feed has been distributed or scattered as the result of bona fide agricultural operations or procedures, or as a result of manipulation of a crop or other feed on the land where grown for wildlife management purposes. Manipulation of crops or other feed for wildlife management purposes does not include the distributing or scattering of grain or other feed once it has been removed from or stored on the field where grown.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Lands where a person is hunting black bear during the black bear season provided that the person and any black bear that the person shoots at is 150 yards or more from an area where grain or other feed has been legally placed for the purpose of attracting wildlife other than black bears.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Lands where a person is hunting wild turkeys during the fall season provided that the person and any wild turkey that the person shoots at is 150 yards or more from an area where grain or other feed has been legally placed for the purpose of attracting wildlife other than wild turkeys.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>