Bill Text: CT HB07010 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Amending Certain Provisions Of The General Statutes Relating To Aquaculture.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Public Hearing 03/20 [HB07010 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-HB07010-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 7010
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 4719
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Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)

AN ACT AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO AQUACULTURE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 26-225 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

Any person who, in the daytime, unlawfully takes and carries away any [oysters] shellfish lawfully planted or cultivated in any waters, or any [oysters] shellfish being on any place designated for the planting or cultivation of [oysters] shellfish, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year; and, if such offense is committed in the night season, [he] such person shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year.

Sec. 2. Section 26-226 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

Any person who wilfully injures any [oyster] shellfish enclosure legally designated, marked out and enclosed or removes any buoys or stakes used to mark out any [oyster] shellfish ground, or who takes any shells from such enclosure, shall (1) for a first offense, be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars, and (2) for any subsequent offense, be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	26-225
Sec. 2	from passage	26-226

Statement of Purpose:

To apply the penalties that are currently in effect for the stealing of oysters and the injuring of oyster enclosures to all shellfish.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]