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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".08" citation="COMAR 08.03.13.08" title_num="08" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="13" heading="Penalties.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Revocation and Suspension.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The Service may revoke or suspend a regulated shooting area permit for any violation of this chapter or of the terms of the permit.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If a regulated shooting ground permit is suspended, a new permit may not be issued for that regulated shooting ground, regardless of who applies, until the period of suspension ends.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Additional Penalties.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>For the purposes of this section a second or subsequent conviction is a violation that has occurred within 2 years of the first conviction and that arises out of a separate set of circumstances than the first conviction.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>In addition to any other penalty provided by this chapter or Natural Resources Article, Annotated Code of Maryland, if a person who holds a permit to establish and operate a regulated shooting ground under this chapter or any other guest of that person is convicted of violating on the premises of the regulated shooting area a provision of State or federal law or regulation that establishes daily or seasonal bag limits, prohibits baiting, or prohibits the hunting of wetland game birds on a regulated shooting area by the use or aid of live birds as decoys, the Director shall suspend the permit:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>For the first conviction, for the following permit year; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>For the second or subsequent conviction, for the following 2 permit years.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>