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HOUSE BILL 122
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HB 149/22 – ENT (PRE–FILED)
By: Delegate Bagnall
Requested: November 17, 2022
Introduced and read first time: January 11, 2023
Assigned to: Environment and Transportation
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Wetlands and Waterways – Riparian Rights – Voluntary Registry and Notice 2
FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and 3
maintain a voluntary registry on the Department’s website for property owners who 4
have registered a claim of riparian rights with the Department; requiring the holder 5
of a covenant for riparian rights to be provided notice of a certain proposed project 6
at a certain time; and generally relating to riparian rights. 7
BY adding to 8
Article – Environment 9
Section 16–201.1 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2014 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) 12
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 13
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 14
Article – Environment 15
16–201.1. 16
(A) (1) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTA BLISH AND MAINTAIN A PUBLICLY 17
ACCESSIBLE VOLUNTARY REGISTRY ON THE DEPARTMENT ’S WEBSITE OF PROPERT Y 18
OWNERS WHO HAVE REGI STERED A CLAIM OF RI PARIAN RIGHTS WITH T HE 19
DEPARTMENT . 20
(2) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DETE RMINE THE INFORMATIO N THAT A 21
PROPERTY OWNER IS RE QUIRED TO SUBMIT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE R EGISTRY 22
UNDER PARAGRAP H (1) OF THIS SUBSECTION . 23 2 HOUSE BILL 122
(3) THE GOVERNOR SHALL APPROP RIATE FUNDS TO THE 1
DEPARTMENT TO COVER T HE COST OF ESTABLISH ING AND MAINTAINING THE 2
REGISTRY. 3
(B) THE HOLDER OF A COVEN ANT FOR RIPARIAN RIG HTS, INCLUDING A 4
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIO N, SHALL BE PROVIDED NOTICE OF A PROPOSED PROJECT 5
IN THE IMMEDIATE ARE A OF THE PROPERTY SU BJECT TO THE COVENAN T AT THE 6
BEGINNING OF THE STATE OR LOCAL PERMIT TING OR OTHER APPROV AL PROCESS 7
FOR THE PROPOSED PRO JECT. 8
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall ta ke effect 9
October 1, 2023. 10