CHRIST v. DEPARTMENT

No. 136, September Term, 1992.

335 Md. 427 (1994)

644 A.2d 34

CHARLES R. CHRIST, JR., A MINOR, BY HIS NEXT FRIEND AND FATHER CHARLES R. CHRIST v. MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 14, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford I. Webb, (Siskind, Burch, Grady & Rosen, all on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. (Andrew H. Baida and Stuart G. Buppert, II, Asst. Attys. Gen., all on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and BELL, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The dispute in this case concerns the validity of a Maryland Department of Natural Resources regulation, COMAR 08.18.02.05A, prohibiting the operation of personal watercraft in Maryland waters by any individual who is less than 14 years old.1 The challenge to the regulation presents two issues: (1) whether Maryland Code (1974, 1990 Repl.Vol., 1993 Cum. Supp.), § 8-704 of the Natural Resources Article,

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