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2022 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality
§30:101.2. Policy and purpose

Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 30:101.2 (2022)
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RS 30:101.2 - Policy and purpose

NOTE: Subsection (A) eff. until July 1, 2023. See Acts 2022, No. 100, §2.

A. The legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest and within the police power of this state to establish an underwater obstruction removal program and an underwater obstruction removal dedicated fund account to provide for the proper and timely identification, inventory, and removal of underwater obstructions which are a hazard to navigation and commercial fishing in the state, to be administered by the assistant secretary of the office of conservation within the Department of Natural Resources.

NOTE: Subsection (A) as amended by Acts 2022, No. 100, §2, eff. July 1, 2023.

A. The legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest and within the police power of this state to establish a fishermen's gear compensation and underwater obstruction removal program and a fishermen's gear compensation and underwater obstruction removal dedicated fund account to provide for the proper and timely identification, inventory, and removal of underwater obstructions that are a hazard to navigation and commercial fishing in the state, and to compensate commercial fishermen for damage to their fishing gear from the underwater obstructions. The program and fund account shall be administered, for purposes of fishermen's gear compensation, by the assistant secretary of the office of coastal management and, for purposes of underwater obstruction, by the assistant secretary of the office of conservation, both with the Department of Natural Resources.

B. Nothing in this Part shall be deemed to alter or impair any rights and responsibilities established by contract between private parties.

Acts 1997, No. 666, §2; Acts 2021, No. 114, §18, eff. July 1, 2022; Acts 2022, No. 100, §2, eff. July 1, 2023.

NOTE: See R.S. 30:101.15 regarding the termination of Part after June 30, 2027.

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