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TITLE 56 - Wildlife and Fisheries
- RS 56 - TITLE 56.WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
- RS 56:1 - Wildlife and Fisheries Commission established; membership; qualifications; definitions
- RS 56:2 - Supervision and direction of commission; meetings
- RS 56:3 - Ownership of wild birds, quadrupeds, fish, aquatic life, water bottoms, oysters, and shellfish
- RS 56:4 - Authority of Department of Natural Resources over navigable water bottoms
- RS 56:5 - General powers and authority
- RS 56:6 - Special powers and duties; statistics; rules and regulations; reports
- RS 56:6.1 - Emergency closure of hunting or fishing seasons; rules and regulations; prohibitions; penalties
- RS 56:6.2 - Advisory committees
- RS 56:7 - Domicile of commission; service of process; suits; parties
- RS 56:7.1 - Jesse J. Guidry Center for Wildlife and Fisheries Resources
- RS 56:8 - Definitions
- RS 56:9 - Report of violations; criminal prosecution; schedule of fines; citations; ex officio notaries public
- RS 56:10 - Annual report to governor; estimate of proposed expenditures; particular funds; warrants; vouchers; surplus funds
- RS 56:10.1 - Aquatic Plant Control Fund; creation; uses
- RS 56:11 - Bond of director and employees
- RS 56:12 - Boats and other movable property
- RS 56:13 - Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 804, 2, July 2, 1999.
- RS 56:13.1 - Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 804, 2, eff. July 2, 1999.
- RS 56:14 - Saltwater Fishery Enforcement Account; creation; use of monies in the account
- RS 56:15 - Prohibited acts involving interstate commerce
- RS 56:16 - Intentional concealment, destruction, or deposit of illegal fish, wildlife, or other animals; penalties
- RS 56:17 - Taking fish for purpose of science and cultivation; permits; propagation of fish
- RS 56:18 - Trespass on or injury to structures or areas used for scientific experiments
- RS 56:19 - Exchange of fish hatched at fish hatcheries for fish roe or fish eggs
- RS 56:20 - Releasing game, fowl, or fish; permission; intrastate restocking; violations
- RS 56:21 - Stocking waters with fish
- RS 56:22 - Rules and regulations for protection and preservation of fish
- RS 56:23 - Penalty for violations
- RS 56:24 - Contract by commission with private landowners for use of lands for wildlife management areas in consideration for relief from certain taxation
- RS 56:25 - Fish and wildlife restoration and management projects; assent to federal aid act; duties of commission
- RS 56:26 - Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 566, §2.
- RS 56:27 - Management and harvesting of fish in private ponds exempt from statutory limitations; permits; exceptions
- RS 56:28 - Official badges, identification cards, other insignia
- RS 56:29 - Interference with marks or buoys
- RS 56:30 - Department of Wildlife and Fisheries; powers; duties; functions; periodic evaluation of fees and charges imposed
- RS 56:30.1 - Department of Wildlife and Fisheries; issuance of licenses and permits for hunting and fishing
- RS 56:30.2 - Notice to legislators
- RS 56:30.3 - Lease of state lands; access to public waterways
- RS 56:30.4 - Geophysical and geological surveys
- RS 56:31 - Class one violations
- RS 56:31.1 - Civil penalties; assessments; posting of bond; forfeiture; dedication of funds collected
- RS 56:32 - Class two violation
- RS 56:33 - Class three violation
- RS 56:34 - Class four violation
- RS 56:35 - Class five violation
- RS 56:36 - Class six violation
- RS 56:37 - Class seven violation
- RS 56:37.1 - Class eight violation
- RS 56:38 - Revocation of license
- RS 56:39 - Forfeiture of quadrupeds, birds, and fish; Fish and Wildlife Violations Reward Fund, creation and use of fund monies
- RS 56:40.1 - CIVIL PENALTIES FOR RESTITUTION OF
- RS 56:40.2 - Value of fish, wild birds, wild quadrupeds, and other wildlife and aquatic life
- RS 56:40.3 - Civil penalties; assessment; administrative hearing
- RS 56:40.4 - Civil suit for recovery of value
- RS 56:40.5 - Venue and procedure
- RS 56:40.6 - More than one defendant
- RS 56:40.7 - Recovery of value in addition to fine
- RS 56:40.8 - Both civil suit and criminal prosecution permissible; exceptions
- RS 56:40.9 - Disposition of recovery
- RS 56:41 - To 44 Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 837, 4
- RS 56:45 - Jurisdiction of trial of violations
- RS 56:46 - Venue when river divides parishes
- RS 56:47 - Venue when offense committed in lake, bay, or other body of water
- RS 56:48 - Venue when offense committed in the Gulf of Mexico
- RS 56:49 - Venue when exact place of vessel cannot be determined
- RS 56:50 - Venue; exception when exact place cannot be determined
- RS 56:51 - Limits of state sovereignty
- RS 56:52 - Issuance of search warrants
- RS 56:53 - Commissioned wildlife enforcement agents of the enforcement division may carry weapons
- RS 56:54 - License requirements; enforcement by wildlife agents; arrest without warrant
- RS 56:54.1 - Prima facie evidence of violation of law
- RS 56:55 - Search with or without warrant
- RS 56:55.1 - Toledo Bend Reservoir; assignment of officers
- RS 56:55.2 - Additional authority of commissioned wildlife enforcement agents
- RS 56:55.3 - Boats maintained for enforcement; vehicle equipment
- RS 56:56 - Seizure or surrender of things illegally used or possessed
- RS 56:57 - Seizure of vessels, airplanes, vehicles, and equipment
- RS 56:57.1 - Forfeitures for fraud
- RS 56:57.2 - Turtle excluder devices; findings; enforcement of federal requirements; rules and regulations
- RS 56:57.3 - Licenses; fraudulent acquisition; penalty
- RS 56:57.4 - Fish excluder device requirements; enforcement of federal laws, rules or regulations prohibited; adoption of rules and regulations prohibited
- RS 56:58 - Disposition of seizures other than vessels, airplanes, and other vehicles
- RS 56:59 - Disposition of seized vessels, airplanes, vehicles, and equipment therefor
- RS 56:60 - Confiscation of things seized
- RS 56:61 - Disposition of things, other than vessels, airplanes, vehicles and equipment, confiscated or forfeited to the department
- RS 56:62 - Time limit for retention of things seized
- RS 56:63 - Proceeds of sales of things seized; commingling with conservation fund
- RS 56:64 - Proceeds of sales of things seized; no liability after two years
- RS 56:65 - No liability for acts performed in good faith
- RS 56:66 - No criminal liability for covert operations officers
- RS 56:67 - Enforcement of civil judgment
- RS 56:68 - Aviation unit; powers and duties
- RS 56:68.1 - Federal enforcement officers; Avoyelles Parish; Cameron Parish; Calcasieu Parish
- RS 56:68.2 - Federal enforcement; saltwater fisheries laws
- RS 56:69 - Exemptions from traffic regulations
- RS 56:69.1 - AUXILIARY ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM
- RS 56:69.2 - Definitions
- RS 56:69.3 - Commissions and commissioning
- RS 56:69.4 - Requirements for commissioning
- RS 56:69.5 - Training
- RS 56:69.6 - Probation
- RS 56:69.7 - Renewal of commissions
- RS 56:69.8 - Revocation of commissions
- RS 56:69.9 - Reserve agent
- RS 56:69.10 - Powers and duties of auxiliary agents
- RS 56:69.11 - Compensation
- RS 56:69.12 - Liability
- RS 56:69.13 - Rules and regulations
- RS 56:69.21 - Wildlife Violator Compact
- RS 56:69.22 - Definitions
- RS 56:69.23 - Procedures for issuing citations in relation to the Wildlife Violators Compact
- RS 56:69.24 - Procedure for the home state
- RS 56:69.25 - Reciprocal recognition of suspension
- RS 56:69.26 - Applicability of other laws
- RS 56:69.27 - Compact administrator procedures
- RS 56:69.28 - Entry into and withdrawal from the Wildlife Violator Compact
- RS 56:69.29 - Amendments to the Wildlife Violator Compact
- RS 56:69.30 - Licensing authority; rules and regulations
- RS 56:69.31 - Construction and severability
- RS 56:70.1 - Title
- RS 56:70.2 - Creation and purpose
- RS 56:70.3 - Louisiana Help Our Wildlife Fund; creation; composition of fund; uses of fund
- RS 56:70.4 - Rewards; payments
- RS 56:71 - Governor authorized to enter into compact with other states relative to better utilization of fisheries
- RS 56:72 - Purpose of compact
- RS 56:73 - Time compact becomes operative; parties to compact
- RS 56:74 - Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission; representatives; qualifications
- RS 56:75 - Powers of commission; legislation
- RS 56:76 - Officers; rules and regulations; meetings
- RS 56:77 - Action taken by commission; requirements
- RS 56:78 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be primary research agency; advisory committee
- RS 56:79 - Participation of non-coastal state; limitation
- RS 56:80 - Signatory states not precluded from additional restrictions
- RS 56:81 - Additional compact amendments by signatory states
- RS 56:82 - Absence from representation on the commission
- RS 56:83 - Operating expenses; proration
- RS 56:84 - Continuance of compact; renunciation; notice
- RS 56:85 - Commission representatives from Louisiana; appointment; alternates
- RS 56:86 - Commission powers to be no limitation on state powers
- RS 56:87 - Necessary travel expenses; payment
- RS 56:91 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 984, 18.
- RS 56:92 - Repealed by Acts 1989, No. 662, 8, eff. July 7, 1989.
- RS 56:93 - Repealed by Acts 1989, No. 662, 8, eff. July 7, 1989.
- RS 56:94 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 984, 18.
- RS 56:95 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 984, 18.
- RS 56:96 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 984, 18.
- RS 56:101 - Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 737, 2.
- RS 56:102 - Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 876, 4, eff. July 23, 1985.
- RS 56:103 - License; license books; returns; transfer of license prohibited
- RS 56:103.1 - Nonresident licenses; penalties
- RS 56:104 - License fees; reciprocity; exceptions
- RS 56:104.1 - Physically challenged hunter permits
- RS 56:105 - Special permits and licenses; scientific or entertainment purposes; bow licenses; beaver permit
- RS 56:106 - Field trials
- RS 56:107 - Firing, feeding and breeding grounds
- RS 56:108 - Deer and turkey harvest records and tagging
- RS 56:109 - Wildlife management areas; wildlife refuges; public hunting grounds and recreation areas; notice; signs; disabled hunters
- RS 56:109.1 - Use of all-terrain vehicle trails on wildlife management areas
- RS 56:109.2 - Preservation of wildlife management areas; wildlife refuges; public hunting grounds and recreation areas
- RS 56:109.3 - Levy of mooring fees in the Atchafalaya Delta WMA; Atchafalaya Delta WMA Mooring Account; deposit of fees to the account; uses of the monies in the account
- RS 56:110 - Deer Management Assistance Program areas; notice; signs; prohibitions
- RS 56:110.1 - Quality Deer Management Program
- RS 56:111 - Removal or destruction of signs
- RS 56:112 - Disposal of birds or quadrupeds becoming a nuisance
- RS 56:113 - Taking wild birds or game imported for experimentation or propagation
- RS 56:114 - Open season; curtailment by parish governing authority
- RS 56:115 - Wild birds and wild quadrupeds; adoption of seasons, bag and possession limits; rules and regulations; penalties
- RS 56:116 - Wild birds and wild quadrupeds; special hunting seasons
- RS 56:116.1 - Wild birds and wild quadrupeds; times and methods of taking; penalties
- RS 56:116.2 - Wild birds and wild quadrupeds; sales, purchases of parts prohibited; exceptions
- RS 56:116.3 - Special provisions applicable to deer and bear; times and methods of taking; penalties
- RS 56:116.4 - Special provisions applicable to turkey; times and methods of taking; penalties
- RS 56:116.5 - Computer-assisted remote hunting prohibited; penalties
- RS 56:117 - Possession limits; game birds; transportation of game birds; tags
- RS 56:118 - Migratory game bird violations
- RS 56:119 - Possession of game birds after close of open season
- RS 56:120 - Storage of game birds or quadrupeds; tags
- RS 56:121 - Traps, cages, etc., for taking wild birds; confiscation; exception for destructive blackbirds
- RS 56:121.1 - Traps; wild quadrupeds
- RS 56:122 - Carrier pigeons, killing or catching when banded prohibited; penalty
- RS 56:123 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 966, 2.
- RS 56:124 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 966, 2.
- RS 56:124.1 - Dogs; regulation of; police juries
- RS 56:125 - Possession of game quadrupeds; tags; deer carcasses
- RS 56:126 - Repealed by Acts 1952, No. 127, 21
- RS 56:127 - Confiscation of illegal traps or snares and quadrupeds taken thereby
- RS 56:128 - Falconry
- RS 56:129 - To 135 Repealed by Acts 1958, No. 133, 2
- RS 56:136 - Jurisdiction where offense committed in river between two parishes or in Gulf of Mexico
- RS 56:137 - Repealed by Acts 1958, No. 133, 2
- RS 56:139 - Criminal penalty
- RS 56:140 - Foxes; bobcats
- RS 56:141 - Training of dogs during closed season; taking of certain pen-raised birds for the purposes of field trials and hunting dog training
- RS 56:142 - Catahoula lake area; operation of mud boats for purpose of hunting or fishing prohibited
- RS 56:143 - "Hunter orange" display by hunters with guns
- RS 56:144 - Repealed by Acts 1993, No. 188, 2.
- RS 56:151 - LOUISIANA DUCK LICENSE, STAMP,
- RS 56:152 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 100, §2.
- RS 56:153 - Design, marketing, and sale of duck stamps and prints
- RS 56:154 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 100, §2.
- RS 56:155 - Louisiana Duck License, Stamp, and Print Fund; purposes
- RS 56:156 - Reciprocal agreements
- RS 56:157 - Penalties
- RS 56:161 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 100, §2.
- RS 56:162 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 100, §2.
- RS 56:163 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 100, §2.
- RS 56:164 - Louisiana Wild Turkey Fund; purposes
- RS 56:165 - Reciprocal agreements
- RS 56:166 - Penalties
- RS 56:171 - Wildlife; business of raising and selling; breeder's license
- RS 56:172 - Killing of birds or animals; sale; trapping regulations; exporting live specimens
- RS 56:173 - Transportation of birds or animals killed; tags; sale of carcass
- RS 56:174 - Shipment of carcasses or parts thereof; tag or label
- RS 56:175 - License for sale of birds killed and tagged
- RS 56:176 - Report of birds or animals killed and sold
- RS 56:177 - Fencing farms or preserves
- RS 56:178 - Ownership of birds and animals on fenced breeding area; trespass
- RS 56:179 - Repealed by Acts 1974, No. 717, 4
- RS 56:180 - Revocation of license
- RS 56:181 - Penalty for violation of Sub-part
- RS 56:191 - Title
- RS 56:192 - Purpose
- RS 56:193 - Wildlife biologists; duties; qualification
- RS 56:251 - Licenses; possession limit for nonresident alligator hunter; deposit as guarantee of payment of severance tax; penalties
- RS 56:252 - Residence of alligator hunters, fur buyers and dealers
- RS 56:253 - Shipping raw furs, alligators, alligator skins, and alligator parts out of state; tags
- RS 56:254 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 499, 2, eff. June 22, 1992.
- RS 56:255 - Alligator records; inspections
- RS 56:256 - Severance tax
- RS 56:257 - Payment of tax by trappers, alligator hunters, and alligator farmers shipping or taking own catch out of state; shipping tags
- RS 56:258 - Dealer records; payment of tax; confiscation of furs and skins
- RS 56:259 - Open season; method of taking animals; prohibited devices; possession and sale of skins
- RS 56:260 - Setting a trap, snare, net, or other device
- RS 56:261 - Possession; alligator eggs, live alligators, skins
- RS 56:262 - Nongame quadrupeds; breeding, propagation, and exhibition
- RS 56:263 - Alligator parts, buying and selling; license; reports; tagging
- RS 56:264 - Scientific research
- RS 56:265 - Trespass on marshlands to trap or hunt fur bearing animals
- RS 56:266 - Louisiana Fur Public Education and Marketing Fund
- RS 56:267 - Repealed by Acts 1958, No. 135, 2.
- RS 56:274 - Blank]
- RS 56:275 - Repealed by Acts 1958, No. 135, 2.
- RS 56:278 - Louisiana Alligator Advisory Council
- RS 56:279 - Louisiana Alligator Resource Fund
- RS 56:280 - White or albino alligators; taking from the wild; prohibition; penalties; notification to alligator hunters
- RS 56:281 - Nutria control cost-sharing; statement of intent
- RS 56:282 - Powers and duties of the secretary
- RS 56:283 - Cooperative agreements; cost-sharing
- RS 56:284 - Annual proposal; cost-sharing; purpose
- RS 56:291 - Feeding of wild bears prohibited
- RS 56:301 - Definitions
- RS 56:301.1 - License requirements; possession; nontransferability
- RS 56:301.2 - Application requirements; proof of residency; material misstatements; fees for certain alien individual licenses
- RS 56:301.3 - Applicability to other fishing laws
- RS 56:301.4 - Records; confidentiality
- RS 56:301.5 - Commission rules and regulations
- RS 56:301.6 - Special licenses and permits
- RS 56:301.7 - Dedication of proceeds of licenses
- RS 56:301.8 - Nonresident recreational fishermen; possession of license; penalty
- RS 56:301.9 - Issuance of commercial licenses via Internet transactions
- RS 56:302 - Recreational fishing license; recreational gear
- RS 56:302.1 - Annual license; temporary license; fees; saltwater fee; exemptions
- RS 56:302.2 - Exception for certain residents, nonresidents, and military personnel from purchase or possession of basic recreational and saltwater license
- RS 56:302.3 - Recreational gear license
- RS 56:302.4 - Recreational fishing licenses: license year; purchase period
- RS 56:302.5 - Basic recreational fishing licenses; issuing agent commission
- RS 56:302.6 - Recreational gear license place of purchase; basic recreational fishing license requirement
- RS 56:302.7 - Free fishing days
- RS 56:302.8 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 206, 1.
- RS 56:302.9 - Charter boat fishing guide license; nonresident fee
- RS 56:302.9.1 - Charter boat license; skiff fee; charter fishing trip license
- RS 56:302.10 - Sale of recreational catch
- RS 56:303 - Commercial fisherman's license; fees; place of purchase; information
- RS 56:303.1 - Commercial fisherman's license; license year; purchase period
- RS 56:303.1.1 - Fresh products license
- RS 56:303.2 - License possession; menhaden
- RS 56:303.3 - Helpers
- RS 56:303.4 - Commercial fisherman's sales receipt form
- RS 56:303.5 - Presumptions relative to fish caught by person possessing a commercial fishing license
- RS 56:303.6 - Oyster harvester license
- RS 56:303.7 - Transport and sale of the catch
- RS 56:303.8 - Special apprentice license; commercial taking of saltwater fish; requirements
- RS 56:303.9 - Presumption of fish used for commercial purposes only
- RS 56:303.10 - Repealed by Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 54, 2, eff. April 29, 1998.
- RS 56:304 - Vessel license; fees; place of purchase
- RS 56:304.1 - Vessel license: license year; purchase period
- RS 56:304.2 - Operation by person not holding a commercial fisherman's license
- RS 56:304.3 - Registered vessels
- RS 56:304.4 - Display of license
- RS 56:304.5 - Transferability; change of vessel name
- RS 56:305 - Commercial gear license; issuance to certain nonresidents prohibited; moratorium on certain new gear licenses; renewals
- RS 56:305.1 - License year; place of purchase; purchase period
- RS 56:305.2 - Applicant, license information; commercial gear license for the fishing of menhaden
- RS 56:305.3 - Temporary transfer of commercial gear licenses
- RS 56:305.4 - Other licenses
- RS 56:305.5 - Commercial gear license for gill net; permits to be used in the EEZ; dedication and expenditure of funds collected
- RS 56:305.6 - Moratorium on crab trap gear licenses
- RS 56:305.7 - Rod and reel gear license eligibility; class three or greater violations; prohibitions
- RS 56:306 - Wholesale/retail seafood dealer's license; place of business; employees; exemptions; wholesale out-of-state crab shipping license
- RS 56:306.1 - Retail seafood dealer's license; place of business; employees; retail out-of-state crab shipping license
- RS 56:306.2 - License fee; place of purchase
- RS 56:306.3 - Wholesale/retail seafood dealer's license and retail seafood dealer's license; license year; purchase period
- RS 56:306.4 - Restrictions on buying and selling and transportation by wholesale/retail seafood dealers, retail seafood dealer's license; restaurants and retail grocers
- RS 56:306.5 - Records
- RS 56:306.6 - Monthly returns to the department by wholesale/retail seafood dealers
- RS 56:306.7 - Definitions
- RS 56:307 - Transporter; license required
- RS 56:307.1 - Transport license fee; underlying license
- RS 56:307.2 - Buying and selling prohibition by transporters; exceptions
- RS 56:307.3 - Number of licenses that can be purchased
- RS 56:307.4 - Repealed by Acts 1987, No. 779, 2.
- RS 56:307.5 - Transferability
- RS 56:307.6 - Common carriers
- RS 56:307.7 - Shipping records
- RS 56:308 - Penalty
- RS 56:309 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 401, §2, eff. Nov. 15, 2006.
- RS 56:309.1 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 401, §2, eff. Nov. 15, 2006.
- RS 56:309.2 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 401, §2, eff. Nov. 15, 2006.
- RS 56:309.3 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 401, §2, eff. Nov. 15, 2006.
- RS 56:309.4 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 401, §2, eff. Nov. 15, 2006.
- RS 56:311 - Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 737, 2
- RS 56:312 - Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 876, 4, eff. July 23, 1985.
- RS 56:313 - Control of fisheries; duty of commission; duty of the department
- RS 56:314 - Confiscation of unlawful tackle
- RS 56:315 - Sanctuaries and propagating places; closed zones
- RS 56:315.1 - Fish ladders
- RS 56:316 - Trespass on areas set aside for propagation of fish
- RS 56:317 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 399, §2, eff. June 15, 2006.
- RS 56:318 - Taking fish for scientific or educational purposes; permits
- RS 56:318.1 - Fishing tournaments; special permits
- RS 56:319 - Exotic fish; importation, sale, and possession of certain exotic species prohibited; permit required; penalty
- RS 56:319.1 - Control of importation of fish; department's regulatory authority
- RS 56:319.2 - Designation and taking of exotic fish
- RS 56:320 - Methods of taking freshwater or saltwater fish
- RS 56:320.1 - Use and possession of certain gill nets, trammel nets, strike nets, or seines; prohibited
- RS 56:320.2 - Federal exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
- RS 56:321 - Elevated trotlines prohibited; civil liability
- RS 56:322 - Seines or nets; size of mesh; classification as to salt or fresh water; crawfish traps
- RS 56:322.1 - Shad seine; commercial harvest of shad and skipjack herring
- RS 56:322.2 - Shad gill nets; commercial harvest of shad and skipjack herring
- RS 56:323 - Bait; methods of taking
- RS 56:324 - Menhaden seines; restrictions
- RS 56:325 - Daily take, possession, and size limits; freshwater recreational fish; possession of finfish filets prohibited
- RS 56:325.1 - Size and possession limits, recreational saltwater finfish; penalties
- RS 56:325.2 - Saltwater recreational finfish; total length
- RS 56:325.3 - Spotted sea trout commercial taking; annual quota; red drum commercial taking, possession, or landing prohibited
- RS 56:325.4 - Commercial taking of other saltwater finfish; exceptions; mesh size
- RS 56:325.5 - Repealed by Acts 1989, No. 488, 2, eff. July 1, 1989.
- RS 56:325.6 - Bait gulf menhaden; annual quota after regular closed season
- RS 56:326 - Size and possession limits; commercial fish
- RS 56:326.1 - Size limits set by commission
- RS 56:326.2 - Vessels landing red drum; notice to department; equipment; inspection
- RS 56:326.3 - Possession limits; size limits, seasons, quotas, times, and daily take limits, set by commission; penalties
- RS 56:326.4 - Staggered and split seasons and quotas
- RS 56:326.5 - Bowfin; size limitations; eggs
- RS 56:326.6 - Closed season; bowfin
- RS 56:327 - Sale or purchase of freshwater or saltwater game fish prohibited; commercial sales and purchases, commercial license required; commercial fingerlings and certified mariculture and aquaculture fish excepted; penalties
- RS 56:327.1 - Aquaculturally raised fish; definitions; importation
- RS 56:328 - Conducting fishing operations so as not to destroy nests or natural hiding places of young fish; prohibited importation; control and regulation of noxious aquatic plants; permit; penalty
- RS 56:329 - Obstruction of streams or lakes by fyke nets or other devices
- RS 56:330 - Crawfish harvesters; crawfish traps
- RS 56:331 - Crab Task Force
- RS 56:331.1 - Repealed by Acts 1968, No. 625, 1.
- RS 56:332 - Crabs; release of crabs in berry stage; method of taking crabs; time limitations; by-catch; penalties; abandoned crab trap removal program
- RS 56:332.1 - Eel; methods of taking; licensing; marking; violation
- RS 56:333 - Mullet; saltwater areas
- RS 56:333.1 - Mullet; freshwater areas
- RS 56:333.2 - Repealed by Acts 2013, No. 184, §12.
- RS 56:333.3 - Live mullet; harvest for bait
- RS 56:334 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:334.1 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:334.2 - Freshwater fishing allowed in designated saltwater areas
- RS 56:335 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:336 - Penalty for violation of sport fishing provisions
- RS 56:337 - Repealed by Acts 1989, No. 490, 1.
- RS 56:338 - Registration of vessels; application; misstatements; penalties
- RS 56:339 - Transportation of fish to other states; reciprocity
- RS 56:340 - To 344 Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:345 - Repealed by Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 130, 2.
- RS 56:346 - Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 270, 2.
- RS 56:347 - To 353 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 876, 4, eff. July 23, 1985.
- RS 56:354 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:355 - Penalty provision
- RS 56:356 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 743, §2(C), eff. July 1, 2010.
- RS 56:360.1 - Louisiana Aquatic Invasive Species Council
- RS 56:360.2 - The Louisiana Aquatic Invasive Species Task Force
- RS 56:360.3 - Powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the Louisiana Aquatic Invasive Species Council and Task Force
- RS 56:401 - Commercial seining prohibited in Lake Bruin and other lakes: penalty
- RS 56:402 - Commercial fishing in Lake Bruin prohibited; penalty
- RS 56:403 - Commercial seining prohibited in Clear Lake; penalty
- RS 56:404 - Use of seines, nets, or webbing in Bogue Chitto River prohibited; logging and hand grabbing of fish in Bogue Chitto River prohibited; penalty
- RS 56:405 - Use of seines, nets or webbing or traps in Tchefuncte River, Lake Des Allemands, Bayou Des Allemands and Lake Salvador prohibited; exceptions; penalty
- RS 56:406 - Use of trammel net, seine, gill net, or webbing prohibited in the waters of Breton Islands and Chandeleur Islands; exceptions; penalty
- RS 56:407 - Use of trammel nets, gill nets, and seines in certain areas of Lake Borgne prohibited
- RS 56:408 - Lake Maurepas; trawling prohibited; nets in certain areas prohibited
- RS 56:409 - Saline Lake; Iatt Lake; triploid grass carp; introduction; expenditures
- RS 56:409.1 - Penalty for the wasting of the state's fishery resources
- RS 56:410 - Trawling at night prohibited on White Lake and Grand Lake
- RS 56:410.1 - Paratrawling prohibited in canals; penalty
- RS 56:410.2 - Use of trammel nets, gill nets, and strike nets in Calcasieu Lake in Cameron Parish prohibited
- RS 56:410.3 - Sabine Lake; taking of crabs; seasons; gear; penalties
- RS 56:410.4 - Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 133, §1.
- RS 56:410.5 - Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 133, §1.
- RS 56:410.6 - Calcasieu Lake in Calcasieu Parish; use of trammel nets, gill nets, strike nets, and seines
- RS 56:410.7 - Black Lake, Clear Lake, and Prairie Lake; marking of nets required; permitted and prohibited fishing gear; penalties
- RS 56:410.8 - Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 133, §1.
- RS 56:410.9 - Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 133, §1.
- RS 56:410.10 - Use of certain fishing gear on Poverty Point Reservoir; prohibition
- RS 56:410.11 - Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 133, §1.
- RS 56:411 - Legislative findings and purpose
- RS 56:412 - Issuance and renewal of domesticated aquatic organism license
- RS 56:413 - Harvest and sale of domesticated aquatic organisms
- RS 56:414 - Penalties
- RS 56:415 - Exemption; aquatic livestock farmers
- RS 56:421 - Oyster Task Force
- RS 56:422 - Regulation of industry; residence of persons engaging in; employment of labor and vessels
- RS 56:423 - Property rights, larceny or other public offense concerning; leases heritable and transferable; adjudication of claims
- RS 56:424 - Taking of oysters
- RS 56:424.1 - Illegal taking of oysters; penalties
- RS 56:425 - Lease of water bottoms; stipulations; boundary disputes
- RS 56:426 - Filing and recordation of water bottoms leases
- RS 56:427 - Initial application for lease
- RS 56:427.1 - State, political subdivisions of the state, and the United States held harmless in coastal restoration
- RS 56:428 - Commencement and duration of lease; renewal; fixing of rental rates
- RS 56:428.1 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 425, §2, eff. June 15, 2006.
- RS 56:428.2 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 425, §2, eff. June 15, 2006.
- RS 56:428.3 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 425, §2, eff. June 15, 2006.
- RS 56:429 - Default in payment of rent; cancellation and forfeitures
- RS 56:430 - Additional lease stipulations
- RS 56:430.1 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 425, §2, eff. June 15, 2006.
- RS 56:431 - Unlawful removal of oysters or signs from leased propagating grounds; instructions to captain and crew of vessels; penalty
- RS 56:431.1 - Devices to protect oysters from predation; use on leased acreage
- RS 56:431.2 - Alternative oyster culture; permits
- RS 56:432 - Territorial limitations
- RS 56:432.1 - Oyster Lease Acquisition and Compensation Program
- RS 56:432.2 - Annual reporting of coastal protection, conservation, and restoration project status
- RS 56:433 - Culling oysters taken from natural reefs; size limits
- RS 56:433.1 - Oyster seed ground vessel permit; Oyster Seed Ground Vessel Permit Appeals Board
- RS 56:434 - Oyster seed grounds; designation and setting aside; rules and regulations concerning taking of seed oysters; areas recognized as oyster seed reservations; protection of oyster seed reservations
- RS 56:434.1 - Public Oyster Seed Ground Development Account
- RS 56:435 - Dredges and scrapers; use in removing oysters
- RS 56:435.1 - Sabine Lake; methods of harvest; penalty; season; self-propelled vessels; harvested oysters
- RS 56:435.1.1 - Oyster harvest in Calcasieu Lake
- RS 56:435.2 - Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 398, §2.
- RS 56:436 - Restricted time of taking oysters
- RS 56:437 - Sale of oysters for raw consumption within the state
- RS 56:438 - Surveyor, definition
- RS 56:439 - Staking off or bedding oysters on unleased water bottoms
- RS 56:440 - Standard measurements; barrel
- RS 56:441 - Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 38, 2, eff. May 28, 1999.
- RS 56:442 - Collection and disposition of funds; dedication of funds
- RS 56:443 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:444 - License number display
- RS 56:445 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:446 - Oyster severance tax; collection
- RS 56:447 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:448 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:449 - Tags; distribution; use; containers; penalties
- RS 56:450 - Freshwater mussels; rules; penalties
- RS 56:451 - Severance tax; default in payment; penalties
- RS 56:452 - Penalties
- RS 56:471 - CLAMS
- RS 56:472 - Severance tax
- RS 56:473 - Recreational possession limit; recreational gear regulations
- RS 56:474 - Time and method of taking clams
- RS 56:475 - Approved ports
- RS 56:476 - License display
- RS 56:477 - Division of water bottoms
- RS 56:478 - Demarcation line
- RS 56:479 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:480 - Catch limitations
- RS 56:481 - Size limits
- RS 56:482 - Penalty provision
- RS 56:491 - Definitions
- RS 56:492 - Incidental by-catch
- RS 56:493 - Control of shrimp fishery and industry
- RS 56:494 - Louisiana Shrimp Task Force
- RS 56:495 - Defining inside and outside waters
- RS 56:495.1 - Trawling vessels; size of trawls; butterfly nets
- RS 56:496 - Residence requirements; exception
- RS 56:497 - Saltwater shrimp seasons; bait shrimp
- RS 56:497.1 - Trawl, skimmer, or butterfly gear license eligibility
- RS 56:498 - Size limit
- RS 56:499 - Trawls, butterfly, and skimmer nets, and cast nets; size of mesh; length; diameter of butterfly and skimmer nets extensions; prohibited devices
- RS 56:499.1 - Use of trawls in certain areas around Calcasieu Lake; use and identification of butterfly nets in certain sections of East and West Passes of the Calcasieu River, Grand Bayou, and Oyster Bayou
- RS 56:499.2 - Butterfly and bottom nets; Lake Pontchartrain and Intracoastal Waterway
- RS 56:499.3 - Butterfly and bottom nets; Oyster Bayou
- RS 56:499.4 - Night shrimping; inside waters; Vermilion Bay; East and West Cote Blanche Bays; Atchafalaya Bay; exceptions; prohibition
- RS 56:500 - Recreational possession limit; gear
- RS 56:501 - Commercial taking of freshwater shrimp
- RS 56:502 - Manifest of cargo of vessel carrying shrimp
- RS 56:503 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:504 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:505 - Repealed by Acts 2002, No. 75, 2, eff. July 1, 2002.
- RS 56:506 - Excise tax; default in payment; penalty
- RS 56:506.1 - Fee for promotion and protection of wild-caught shrimp
- RS 56:507 - Penalty for violation of Subpart
- RS 56:508 - To 513 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 876, 4, eff. July 23, 1985.
- RS 56:514 - To 521 Repealed by Acts 1958, No. 53, 14, eff. June 24, 1958
- RS 56:522 - Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 876, 4, eff. July 23, 1985.
- RS 56:524 - Repealed by Acts 1958, No. 53, 14, eff. June 24, 1958
- RS 56:526 - Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 876, 4, eff. July 23, 1985.
- RS 56:551 - Harvest and sale of crabs
- RS 56:552 - Repealed by Acts 1952, No. 627, 2
- RS 56:554 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:555 - Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 876, 4, eff. July 23, 1985.
- RS 56:557 - Disposition of moneys received
- RS 56:558 - Enforcement of penalties by civil proceedings
- RS 56:559 - Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 876, 4, eff. July 23, 1985.
- RS 56:561 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 904, 4.
- RS 56:571 - Underutilized species, policy and purpose; permits; fees; rules and regulations
- RS 56:572 - Legality of contracts
- RS 56:573 - Approval of contracts
- RS 56:574 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 984, 18.
- RS 56:575 - Rules, applications
- RS 56:576 - Disbursements
- RS 56:577 - Other powers and duties
- RS 56:578.1 - Purposes
- RS 56:578.2 - Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board; creation and organization
- RS 56:578.3 - Powers, duties, and functions
- RS 56:578.4 - Advertising, contracts, and sales offices
- RS 56:578.5 - Repealed by Acts 2013, No. 228, §3, eff. July 1, 2013.
- RS 56:578.6 - Repealed by Acts 2013, No. 228, §3, eff. July 1, 2013.
- RS 56:578.7 - Appropriations; warrants; records
- RS 56:578.8 - Repealed by Acts 2013, No. 228, §3, eff. July 1, 2013.
- RS 56:578.9 - Approval of regulations
- RS 56:578.10 - Seafood packaging regulations
- RS 56:578.11 - Labeling of catfish packaging; possession and exchange of certain catfish prohibited; penalties
- RS 56:578.12 - Repealed by Acts 2013, No. 228, §3, eff. July 1, 2013.
- RS 56:578.13 - Labeling of "crawfish"
- RS 56:578.14 - Imported crawfish or shrimp; notice to patrons; penalties
- RS 56:578.15 - Louisiana Wild Seafood Certification Program
- RS 56:579.1 - Permitting of mariculture in the coastal zone; policy and purpose; permits; rules and regulations; fees
- RS 56:579.2 - Harvest of mariculture fish; authority to harvest during closure of fishing
- RS 56:580.1 - LOUISIANA RECREATIONAL FISHING
- RS 56:580.2 - Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1137, 1.
- RS 56:580.3 - Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1137, 1.
- RS 56:580.4 - Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1137, 1.
- RS 56:580.5 - Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1137, 1.
- RS 56:580.6 - Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1137, 1.
- RS 56:581 - Expropriation of lands
- RS 56:582 - Distribution of fish
- RS 56:583 - Federal fish hatchery
- RS 56:611 - Establishment authorized
- RS 56:612 - Control of station; rules and regulations; donations; acquisition of property
- RS 56:613 - Location; cooperation with federal agencies
- RS 56:631 - Funds dedicated
- RS 56:632 - Powers and duties
- RS 56:632.1 - Definitions; applicability
- RS 56:632.2 - Limitations of law
- RS 56:632.3 - Licenses
- RS 56:632.4 - Reptile and amphibian collector's license; scientific collector's permit
- RS 56:632.5 - Reptile and amphibian wholesale/retail dealer's license; nonresident three-day license
- RS 56:632.5.1 - Constrictors and poisonous snakes
- RS 56:632.6 - Methods of collection
- RS 56:632.7 - License fee dedication
- RS 56:632.8 - Repealed by Acts 2013, No. 184, §14(B).
- RS 56:632.9 - Transporter; license required; license fee; prohibitions; number of licenses; transferability; records; common carriers
- RS 56:633 - Reptile and Amphibian Research Fund
- RS 56:634 - Frogs; season; jacklights; restrictions on taking
- RS 56:635 - Diamondback terrapins; trapping; turtle eggs
- RS 56:636 - License requirements; possession; nontransferability
- RS 56:637 - Records
- RS 56:637.1 - Definitions; applicability
- RS 56:638.1 - Saltwater fishery conservation and management; legislative intent
- RS 56:638.2 - Findings
- RS 56:638.3 - Purposes
- RS 56:638.4 - Policy
- RS 56:638.5 - Saltwater fishery standards
- RS 56:639.1 - Title
- RS 56:639.2 - Purposes
- RS 56:639.3 - Definitions
- RS 56:639.4 - Establishment of standards
- RS 56:639.5 - Artificial Reef Development Program; authorities and responsibilities of cooperating agencies
- RS 56:639.6 - Louisiana Artificial Reef Development Council
- RS 56:639.7 - Preparation of the Louisiana Artificial Reef Development Plan
- RS 56:639.8 - Department of Wildlife and Fisheries; Artificial Reef Development Fund
- RS 56:639.9 - Permitting for the construction and management of artificial reefs
- RS 56:639.10 - Liability
- RS 56:640.1 - Right to Fish" Law
- RS 56:640.2 - Definitions
- RS 56:640.3 - Right to fish; legislation; scientific data
- RS 56:641 - Hunting, fishing licenses; Wild Louisiana Stamp; multi-year issuance; fees
- RS 56:641.1 - Exclusive licensing authority; rules and regulations
- RS 56:642 - Credit card or business check purchases
- RS 56:643 - Exemption of persons under age sixteen and certain military personnel from licensing requirements; active duty servicemembers, their spouses, and their children
- RS 56:644 - Fishing and hunting license checkoff; donation for Hunters for the Hungry
- RS 56:645 - Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 566, §2.
- RS 56:646 - Louisiana Sportsman's Paradise license
- RS 56:647 - Suspension or denial of hunting and fishing license; failure to pay child support, individual income tax, or unemployment compensation overpayment
- RS 56:647.1 - Special outdoor press license
- RS 56:648 - Definitions
- RS 56:648.1 - Harassment and disturbance prohibited
- RS 56:648.2 - Remedies, damages, and penalties
- RS 56:648.3 - Failure to obey order; violation
- RS 56:649 - Purpose
- RS 56:649.1 - Lifetime hunting license
- RS 56:649.2 - Lifetime sports fishing license
- RS 56:649.3 - Combination lifetime hunting and sports fishing license
- RS 56:649.4 - Nonresident combination lifetime hunting and fishing license
- RS 56:649.5 - License; license books; transfer of license prohibited
- RS 56:649.6 - Proof of residency and age; penalties
- RS 56:649.7 - Infant combination lifetime hunting and fishing license
- RS 56:650 - Lifetime License Endowment Trust Fund
- RS 56:650.1 - Authorization of department to adopt rules and regulations
- RS 56:651 - License
- RS 56:652 - Rights under license
- RS 56:653 - Information to accompany applications; annual fee
- RS 56:654 - Conditions
- RS 56:655 - Regulation of operations
- RS 56:656 - Hunting and game laws to prevail; special licenses
- RS 56:657 - Revocation of license; appeal
- RS 56:658 - License periods
- RS 56:659 - Penalties
- RS 56:671 - Reciprocal agreement; fishing license
- RS 56:672 - Reciprocal agreement; hunting license
- RS 56:673 - Reciprocal agreement; common boundaries; taking or protection of fish or other aquatic life
- RS 56:674 - Reciprocal agreement; common boundaries; wild quadrupeds or wild birds
- RS 56:675 - Reciprocal agreement; statewide application; taking or protection of fish, other aquatic life, wild quadrupeds, or wild birds
- RS 56:676 - Reciprocity; license fees; seasons; limits
- RS 56:677 - Reciprocal agreements; Toledo Bend; Caddo Lake; special fishing licenses; fees
- RS 56:681 - To 692 redesignated as R.S. 11:581 to 591.
- RS 56:695 - Purpose
- RS 56:696 - Amount of additional salary
- RS 56:697 - Special fund
- RS 56:698 - Disbursement of funds
- RS 56:699 - Participation in firearm and hunter education course in addition to penalties for hunting violations
- RS 56:699.1 - Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 364, §2.
- RS 56:699.2 - Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 364, §2.
- RS 56:699.3 - Regulation of firearm and hunter education
- RS 56:699.4 - Penalty provision
- RS 56:699.5 - Firearm and hunter education requirement
- RS 56:699.6 - Firearm and hunter education exemption
- RS 56:699.7 - Four wheeler and all-terrain vehicle instruction
- RS 56:699.8 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 335, §2.
- RS 56:699.21 - Membership
- RS 56:699.22 - Council powers; duties; responsibilities
- RS 56:700.1 - Definitions
- RS 56:700.2 - Establishment, continuance, and purposes of fund; geographical coverage; assessments
- RS 56:700.3 - Rules and regulations
- RS 56:700.4 - Disbursement of funds; eligibility; hearings
- RS 56:700.5 - Facilities reports; survey of obstruction; labelling
- RS 56:700.10 - Purpose
- RS 56:700.11 - Definitions
- RS 56:700.12 - Damages to oyster leases; mineral activity; settlements and claims
- RS 56:700.13 - Establishment of the board
- RS 56:700.14 - Rules and regulations
- RS 56:701 - WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREAS AND REFUGES
- RS 56:702 - Acquisition of necessary property; powers of commission
- RS 56:703 - Lease or sale of lands to federal government by levee boards
- RS 56:711 - Protection of watersheds of navigable streams
- RS 56:712 - Cooperative agreements
- RS 56:713 - Powers of director; hunting and fishing licenses; rules and regulations
- RS 56:714 - Penalty for violation of rules and regulations
- RS 56:721 - Authorization
- RS 56:722 - Game and fish commission; rules and regulations
- RS 56:722.1 - Game and fish commissions, Lafourche Parish
- RS 56:723 - Transfer of lands by levee boards and school boards
- RS 56:724 - Dykes or dams; excavations
- RS 56:725 - Expropriation of property; revocation of rules and regulations
- RS 56:726 - Fees for privilege of hunting and fishing; erection of camps
- RS 56:727 - Approval of rules and regulations; promulgation; penalties
- RS 56:728 - Appropriations out of general fund; special taxes; employment of deputy sheriff
- RS 56:729 - Anacoco-Prairie State Game and Fish Preserve; transfer
- RS 56:751 - Dedication of state lands withdrawn from entry
- RS 56:752 - Control of area; rules and regulations
- RS 56:753 - Trapping, hunting, or fishing on preserve
- RS 56:754 - Penalty for violation of rules and regulations
- RS 56:761 - Protection of wild animals and birds on wildlife refuges, wildlife management areas, and public hunting grounds
- RS 56:762 - Imported wild birds and animals protected in general
- RS 56:763 - Acceptance of other lands and designation as wildlife refuges, wildlife management areas, and public hunting grounds; rules and regulations; Rainey Sanctuary; National Audubon Society
- RS 56:764 - Penalty for violation of R.S. 56:761, R.S. 56:762 or R.S. 56:763
- RS 56:765 - Donations for wildlife refuges, wildlife management areas, and public hunting grounds; applicability of certain laws
- RS 56:766 - Taking of mayhaw berries; rules and regulations
- RS 56:767 - Private property surrounded by certain wildlife management areas; regulation of hunting and fishing
- RS 56:768 - Private property surrounded by wildlife management areas; access
- RS 56:781 - Authorization for creation of wildlife refuges, wildlife management areas, public hunting grounds, upland game preserves, and wildlife sanctuaries
- RS 56:782 - Notice of intention to dedicate lands; publication
- RS 56:783 - Lease of lands; publication of notice
- RS 56:784 - Reforestation projects; contracts with owners of land; notice
- RS 56:785 - Posting of land; stocking; rules and regulations
- RS 56:786 - Dedication of land; trespass; destruction or defacing signs; arrest
- RS 56:787 - Penalty for violation of Subpart
- RS 56:791 - Protection of wild birds or animals; penalty for violation of Subpart
- RS 56:792 - Secretary excepted
- RS 56:795 - Purchase of portions of Atchafalaya River Basin; nature, recreation and wildlife management area
- RS 56:796 - Lake Fausse Point, Lake Dauterive, and Grand Avoille Cove Advisory Board
- RS 56:797 - Rockefeller Foundation Wildlife Refuge and Game Preserve; revenues; allocation
- RS 56:798 - Russell Sage or Marsh Island Refuge
- RS 56:799 - MC Davis Conservation Fund
- RS 56:799.1 - Purpose
- RS 56:799.2 - Definitions
- RS 56:799.3 - White Lake Property Fund
- RS 56:799.4 - White Lake Property Advisory Board
- RS 56:799.5 - Commission duties and responsibilities
- RS 56:799.6 - Department duties and responsibilities; powers
- RS 56:799.7 - Exemption from restrictions of area and number; fair market value
- RS 56:800 - Timber management, lease, or sale
- RS 56:801 - Particular game and fish preserves and commissions recognized and continued
- RS 56:802 - Responsibilities and duties
- RS 56:803 - Lake Pontchartrain State Bird Sanctuary
- RS 56:804 - Lake Catherine and Lake Pontchartrain Sanctuary
- RS 56:805 - Establishment of recreational reef sites; designation and regulation
- RS 56:901 - Coastal Land Stewardship Authority
- RS 56:1431 - WATER CONTROL
- RS 56:1471 - FORESTS AND FORESTRY
- RS 56:1621 - Exploitation of natural resources by director or employees prohibited; removal or dismissal for violation; application
- RS 56:1622 - Forfeitures of all rights, property, money, or things of value acquired
- RS 56:1623 - Transfer of rights or property acquired in violation of R.S. 56:1621
- RS 56:1681 - Creation; purpose and duties; members; appointments and terms; compensation; chairman; meetings
- RS 56:1682 - Office of state parks; purpose
- RS 56:1683 - Office of state parks; authority to classify
- RS 56:1684 - Categories of classification
- RS 56:1684.1 - Cypremort Point State Park; design standards; applicability
- RS 56:1685 - Classification of holdings
- RS 56:1685.1 - Gary James Hebert Memorial Lockhouse
- RS 56:1685.2 - J. D. "Prof" Lafleur Visitor Center at the Louisiana State Arboretum
- RS 56:1686 - Use of terms prohibited
- RS 56:1687 - Secretary, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism; powers
- RS 56:1687.1 - Posting of state parks' boundaries; rules and regulations
- RS 56:1687.2 - Taking of mayhaw berries; rules and regulations
- RS 56:1688 - Park wardens; powers and duties
- RS 56:1689 - Violation of rules and regulations; penalty
- RS 56:1690 - Capacity to sue and be sued
- RS 56:1691 - Possession of firearms
- RS 56:1692 - Exemption from entrance fees; elderly
- RS 56:1692.1 - Fee exemption for "Golden Age Passport" holders; camp sites
- RS 56:1693 - Exemption from entrance fees; school children
- RS 56:1693.1 - Exemption from fees; children in state's legal custody
- RS 56:1693.2 - Exemption for "Golden Access Passport" holders; day-use entrance fees; camping fees
- RS 56:1693.3 - Exemption for America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Senior Pass and Access Pass holders; camping fees
- RS 56:1694 - Exemption from entrance fees; certain veterans
- RS 56:1695 - Annual day use entrance permits to state parks
- RS 56:1696 - Surplus from operation of parks
- RS 56:1697 - Sale or donation of lands belonging to school or levee board
- RS 56:1698 - Title to state parks
- RS 56:1699 - Chicot State Park, special facilities camp for handicapped; creation; advisory committee; programs; use
- RS 56:1700 - Clinton Confederate Cemetery, operation and maintenance; transfer to cemetery association
- RS 56:1701 - Kent Plantation House, agreements for operation and maintenance
- RS 56:1702 - Palmetto Island State Park; agreements for operation and maintenance
- RS 56:1703 - The Louisiana State Parks Improvement and Repair Fund
- RS 56:1704 - Bayou Segnette State Park; operation of the wave pool
- RS 56:1705 - Poverty Point Reservoir Development Fund
- RS 56:1706 - Audubon Golf Trail Development Fund
- RS 56:1741 - Authority
- RS 56:1751 - Grand Isle beach area; cleaning; maintenance
- RS 56:1761 - Audubon Park Commission; creation; membership
- RS 56:1762 - Powers and duties
- RS 56:1763 - Contract for operation of park and zoo
- RS 56:1764 - Secretary; staff
- RS 56:1765 - Rules to preserve order and protect property; penalties
- RS 56:1766 - Funds for park
- RS 56:1781 - Preservation of abandoned railroad transportation property
- RS 56:1782 - Exercise of preservation rights
- RS 56:1783 - Cooperative endeavors
- RS 56:1784 - Intergovernmental cooperation; financing
- RS 56:1785 - Ownership and usage
- RS 56:1801 - OUTDOOR RECREATION
- RS 56:1802 - Authorized representative
- RS 56:1803 - Agreements with United States; coordination
- RS 56:1804 - Availability of funds
- RS 56:1805 - Agreements on behalf of political subdivisions
- RS 56:1806 - Construction of Chapter
- RS 56:1807 - Cooperation of state agencies and subdivisions with secretary
- RS 56:1808 - Functions and duties of state agencies
- RS 56:1809 - Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 984, 18.
- RS 56:1830 - LOUISIANA NATURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION
- RS 56:1831 - Agreements; land conservation organizations
- RS 56:1832 - Wild Louisiana Stamp
- RS 56:1833 - Wild Louisiana Guide License
- RS 56:1840 - Short title
- RS 56:1841 - Policies; purposes
- RS 56:1842 - Definitions
- RS 56:1843 - Administrator; duties and powers
- RS 56:1844 - Scenic Rivers Fund
- RS 56:1845 - Nomination, recommendation, designation, and declassification of natural and scenic rivers; legislative funding
- RS 56:1846 - Management plan
- RS 56:1847 - Natural and scenic rivers
- RS 56:1848 - Planning considerations
- RS 56:1849 - Evaluation and permitting
- RS 56:1850 - Rules and regulations
- RS 56:1851 - Penalties and enforcement
- RS 56:1852 - Privately owned streams; copies of rules
- RS 56:1853 - Prohibited uses
- RS 56:1854 - Commercial cutting of trees
- RS 56:1855 - Exceptions
- RS 56:1856 - Historic and scenic rivers
- RS 56:1861 - Short title
- RS 56:1862 - Legislative findings and purpose
- RS 56:1863 - Definitions
- RS 56:1864 - Powers and duties of department
- RS 56:1865 - Register of natural areas
- RS 56:1866 - Registration of natural areas
- RS 56:1867 - Dedication of natural areas
- RS 56:1868 - Management, protection and inspection of natural area preserves
- RS 56:1869 - Rules and regulations
- RS 56:1901 - Legislative findings and declarations
- RS 56:1902 - Definitions
- RS 56:1903 - Conservation, study, regulation; authority
- RS 56:1904 - Threatened or endangered species, determination; notice; lists; regulations
- RS 56:1905 - Retroactivity; importation
- RS 56:1906 - Endangered species stamps
- RS 56:1907 - Penalties and enforcement
- RS 56:1921 - Findings, policy, and purposes
- RS 56:1922 - Acquisition of land
- RS 56:1923 - Wildlife Habitat and Natural Heritage Trust
- RS 56:1924 - Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1185, 8, eff. July 1, 2001.
- RS 56:1925 - Management
- RS 56:1941 - HISTORIC ROADS AND SCENIC PARKWAYS
- RS 56:1942 - Definitions
- RS 56:1943 - Route of Cote Joyeuse
- RS 56:1946 - Highland Road; designation
- RS 56:1947 - Definitions
- RS 56:1948.1 - Purpose
- RS 56:1948.2 - Definitions
- RS 56:1948.3 - Criteria
- RS 56:1948.4 - Regional development; legislative committee approval
- RS 56:1948.5 - Louisiana Byways designations
- RS 56:1948.6 - Signage; official state map designation; official logo
- RS 56:1948.7 - Exclusions from Louisiana Byway designation
- RS 56:1948.11 - Creation of the Louisiana Byways Commission; jurisdiction; purpose
- RS 56:1948.12 - Board of commissioners
- RS 56:1948.13 - Powers of the commission
- RS 56:1949 - Old Perkins Road; designation
- RS 56:1950 - Definitions
- RS 56:1950.1 - Purpose
- RS 56:1950.2 - Route of the Louisiana Great River Road
- RS 56:1950.11 - Old Metairie Road Business and Cultural District; designation
- RS 56:1950.12 - Definitions
- RS 56:1950.13 - Signage
- RS 56:1951 - LOUISIANA COLONIAL TRAILS
- RS 56:1952 - Definitions
- RS 56:1953 - Louisiana Colonial Trails; requirements; designations
- RS 56:1954 - Scenic highways; purpose
- RS 56:2001 - LITTLE RIVER COMMISSION
- RS 56:2002 - Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1262, 1.
- RS 56:2003 - Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 1262, 1.
- RS 56:2011 - License to dredge; royalties; exemptions
- RS 56:2012 - Violations and penalties; injunctive relief
- RS 56:2013 - Revocation of licenses
- RS 56:2014 - Emergency cease and desist orders
- RS 56:2015 - Mandamus to compel issuance of license
- RS 56:2021 - TERREBONNE PARISH ARTIFICIAL REEF ACT
- RS 56:2022 - Purpose
- RS 56:2023 - Establishment of standards
- RS 56:2024 - Terrebonne Parish Artificial Reef Development Commission
- RS 56:2025 - Composition of commission
- RS 56:2026 - Commission; officers; meetings; reports
- RS 56:2027 - Powers of the commission
- RS 56:2028 - Dedication of funds
- RS 56:2029 - Tax
- RS 56:2030 - Obligations of the district
- RS 56:2031 - Securities
- RS 56:2032 - Exemption from taxation
- RS 56:2033 - General compliances; enhancement
- RS 56:2034 - Permitting of artificial reefs
- RS 56:2035 - Liability
- RS 56:2036 - Unplugged wells
- RS 56:2037 - Rules and regulations
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