RS 101.2 - Policy and purpose
NOTE: Subsection A eff. until July 1, 2022. See Acts 2021, No. 114.
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 fund 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 2021, No. 114, eff. July 1, 2022.
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.
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.