Section 9-2-81
Created; powers and duties generally.
There is hereby created within the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources a division to be known as the Division of Marine Resources. The Division of Marine Resources shall have the personnel, duties, powers, functions and properties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources which pertain to seafoods and such personnel, duties, powers, functions and properties as may be hereafter conferred by law.
(Acts 1951, No. 476, p. 840, §2.)