Maryland Natural Resources Section 10-901

      The General Assembly finds and declares that it is in the public interest to insure the conservation, preservation, and condition of wildlife native to Maryland, by strictly regulating in the State the possession, importation, exportation, breeding, raising, protection, rehabilitation, hunting, killing, trapping, capture, purchase, or sale of certain wildlife which pose a possibility of:

            (1)      Harmful competition to native wildlife;

            (2)      The introduction of a disease or pest harmful to native wildlife;

            (3)      Problems of enforcing laws and regulations relative to wildlife; or

            (4)      Threatening native wildlife or other natural resources.