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HIRSCH v. MD. DEP'T OF NAT. RESOURCES

[No. 59, September Term, 1979.]

288 Md. 95 (1980)

416 A.2d 10

JOHN J. HIRSCH ET AL. v. MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, WATER RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for reconsideration and clarification and stay of Mandate filed July 24, 1980.

Denied August 11, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Hirsch for appellants.

Richard E. Rice, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and Thomas A. Deming, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE,ORTH, COLE and DAVIDSON, JJ.

ELDRIDGE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

By Chapter 241 of the Acts of 1970, presently codified as Maryland Code (1974), § 9-101 et seq. of the Natural Resources Article,1 the General Assembly enacted the Wetlands Act of 1970, which substantially changed the statutory and common law privileges and responsibilities of owners of real property contiguous to bodies of tidal water in this state. Finding that the despoliation...

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