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Gov Glendening vetoes Sunday hunts (WA)
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Glendening vetoes Sunday hunts
By Tom Stuckey
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANNAPOLIS - Legislation that would have allowed Sunday hunting in Maryland for the first time since Colonial days was vetoed yesterday by Gov. Parris N. Glendening. Top Stories
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The bill would have expanded the deer-hunting season from 13 days to at least 21 days, including one Sunday each year in parts of the state.
Even one day was too much for Mr. Glendening, who said he had received numerous letters urging a veto from campers, hikers and horseback riders.
"Currently, Sunday is the only day of the week during hunting season when outdoor recreation can occur in the state's natural areas without the fear of nearby hunting," Mr. Glendening said in a letter explaining his veto.
He said people who enjoy the outdoors should have one weekend day during hunting season "when their families and children can safely enjoy the outdoors."
The hunting bill was one of 30 vetoed by Mr. Glendening yesterday, one day before he holds the final bill-signing ceremony of his last year as governor. He had vetoed five bills earlier.
Maryland is one of six states that prohibit Sunday hunting for deer on public land.
The extension of the hunting season was proposed as a way to control the growth of the deer population in Maryland.
The Department of Natural Resources said that with fewer natural predators, the population has increased steadily over the past 50 years to a level of about 250,000. The population could reach 500,000 within a few years if nothing is done to control the rate of growth.
The department said one result is a doubling of the number of collisions between deer and motor vehicles over the past eight years, resulting in almost $10 million in property damage annually. A 1996 estimate put the damage to farm crops at almost $38 million.
Other bills vetoed by Mr. Glendening yesterday would have:
Continued a program that will expire in October, under which Maryland uses a private contractor instead of state employees to collect child-support payments in Baltimore and in Prince George's County.
Made Frederick County the only county in Maryland to allow residents to petition changes in zoning regulations to referendum.
Required the state to place a plaque in the State House or on the State House grounds to honor soldiers who were forced to be in the Bataan Death March in World War II. Mr. Glendening said such legislation "would risk reducing a proud structure such as the State House to a bulletin board collage of historical postings." http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20020516-19939556.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Tom Stuckey
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANNAPOLIS - Legislation that would have allowed Sunday hunting in Maryland for the first time since Colonial days was vetoed yesterday by Gov. Parris N. Glendening. Top Stories
Bush rebukes 'second-guessers'
Clinton got '99 warning on hijacking crash threat
Omar says bin Laden lives and U.S. to die
Senate probes source of leak
Arafat links elections to Israeli withdrawal
Kirsanow chides liberals on effort to exclude him
Maryland hopes to coin a new term
The bill would have expanded the deer-hunting season from 13 days to at least 21 days, including one Sunday each year in parts of the state.
Even one day was too much for Mr. Glendening, who said he had received numerous letters urging a veto from campers, hikers and horseback riders.
"Currently, Sunday is the only day of the week during hunting season when outdoor recreation can occur in the state's natural areas without the fear of nearby hunting," Mr. Glendening said in a letter explaining his veto.
He said people who enjoy the outdoors should have one weekend day during hunting season "when their families and children can safely enjoy the outdoors."
The hunting bill was one of 30 vetoed by Mr. Glendening yesterday, one day before he holds the final bill-signing ceremony of his last year as governor. He had vetoed five bills earlier.
Maryland is one of six states that prohibit Sunday hunting for deer on public land.
The extension of the hunting season was proposed as a way to control the growth of the deer population in Maryland.
The Department of Natural Resources said that with fewer natural predators, the population has increased steadily over the past 50 years to a level of about 250,000. The population could reach 500,000 within a few years if nothing is done to control the rate of growth.
The department said one result is a doubling of the number of collisions between deer and motor vehicles over the past eight years, resulting in almost $10 million in property damage annually. A 1996 estimate put the damage to farm crops at almost $38 million.
Other bills vetoed by Mr. Glendening yesterday would have:
Continued a program that will expire in October, under which Maryland uses a private contractor instead of state employees to collect child-support payments in Baltimore and in Prince George's County.
Made Frederick County the only county in Maryland to allow residents to petition changes in zoning regulations to referendum.
Required the state to place a plaque in the State House or on the State House grounds to honor soldiers who were forced to be in the Bataan Death March in World War II. Mr. Glendening said such legislation "would risk reducing a proud structure such as the State House to a bulletin board collage of historical postings." http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20020516-19939556.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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