Md. Code Regs. 08.03.09.03 - Rabies Emergency
A. A person may not
import into Maryland any live raccoons, skunks, foxes, wolves, coyotes, bobcats, or
any other mammalian wildlife species, or hybrids, for which there is no U.S.D.A.
certified vaccine against rabies.
B. A
person or incorporated or unincorporated organization may not harbor or move within
Maryland any live raccoons, skunks, foxes, wolves, coyotes, bobcats, or any other
mammalian wildlife species, or hybrids, for which there is no U.S.D.A. certified
vaccine against rabies, without first having obtained a permit from the Service,
except that it shall be lawful to transfer those living animals within a county or
city to a designee of local government for the purpose of humane
euthanasia.
C. This regulation does not
prohibit the importation or possession of gerbils, hamsters, domesticated rats and
mice, chinchillas, European ferrets, domestic rabbits, guinea pigs, hedgehogs, sugar
gliders, and primates of the families Cebidae, Cercopithecidae, and Pongidae
only.
D. Except as provided in COMAR
08.03.09.12B, this
regulation does not prohibit or restrict the importation or possession of mammals
into Maryland for use at a circus, carnival, or fair licensed under
9 CFR §§
2.1-
2.11, Subpart A.
Notes
Regulation .03 amended effective June 3, 1985 (12:11 Md. R. 1047); July 29, 1985 (12:15 Md. R. 1515)
Regulation .03C amended effective June 30, 1986 (13:13 Md. R. 1490); February 13, 1995 (22:3 Md. R. 151); July 12, 1998 (25:14 Md. R. 1131)
Regulation .03D adopted effective May 25, 1992 (19:10 Md. R. 929)
Regulation .03D amended as an emergency provision effective December 17, 2002 (30:1 Md. R. 21); amended permanently effective March 3, 2003 (30:4 Md. R. 315)
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