Maryland Natural Resources Section 4-11A-19

      (a)      Any person desiring to sell live bait in Montgomery, Frederick, or Washington county shall apply to a person designated by the Department for a live bait dealer's license. The application shall be in the form the Department prescribes, and contain an affidavit signed by the applicant that he is a resident of the county. Upon payment by the applicant of an annual fee of $10.50, the designated person may issue a license supplied by the Department to the designated person. As compensation for each bait dealer's license issued, the designated person shall retain 50 cents. Any money collected for license fees during a month shall be forwarded to the Department on the first day of each succeeding month. The Department shall account for the money to the State Treasurer.

      (b)      A live bait dealer may sell only minnows, chubs measuring less than 6 inches in length, and killifishes and mad toms procured from the waters of the Potomac River. He may not possess more than 750 bait fish of every type at one time. The bait boxes of the live bait dealer shall be open for a Natural Resources police officer to inspect at any reasonable time.

      (c)      A live bait dealer may not sell more than 35 bait fish to any person in any day. A licensee may not transport bait fish out of the county where purchased or sell it outside that county. A purchaser from the licensee may not resell bait fish but may transport it outside of the county where purchased.