Bill Text: MI HB5481 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Natural resources; fishing; possession limits; modify. Amends sec. 48721 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.48721). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5662'09
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 32-10)
Status: (Passed) 2010-04-13 - Assigned Pa 30'10 With Immediate Effect [HB5481 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-HB5481-Chaptered.html
Act No. 30
Public Acts of 2010
Approved by the Governor
March 26, 2010
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 26, 2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 2011
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2010
Introduced by Reps. Hansen, Hildenbrand, Haveman, Horn, Stamas, Caul, Mayes, Kowall, Knollenberg, Byrum, Simpson, Marleau, Crawford, Kurtz, Sheltrown, Ball, Meekhof, Terry Brown, Lindberg, Booher, McDowell, LeBlanc, Pavlov, Daley, Calley, Denby, Genetski, Espinoza, Proos, Elsenheimer, Moore, Moss, Tyler, Pearce, Opsommer, Walsh, Bolger, Wayne Schmidt, Lund, Rocca, McMillin and Neumann
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5481
AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state; to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment and natural resources of the state; to regulate the discharge of certain substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters, and other natural resources of the state; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and donations; to provide certain appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 48721 (MCL 324.48721), as added by 1995 PA 57.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 48721. (1) The department shall issue an order under part 411 establishing possession limits of fish consistent with this section. A person shall not possess more than the daily possession limit or aggregate daily possession limit, as applicable, of fish at the place where the fish were taken or in route from that place to either of the following:
(a) His or her automobile or other principal means of land transportation.
(b) His or her residence or temporary place of lodging.
(2) In addition to 1 day’s possession limit of fish, a person may possess an additional 2 days’ possession limit of fish that are processed by any of the following methods:
(a) Canning in a sealed container.
(b) Curing by smoking or drying.
(c) Freezing in a solid state.
(3) A person’s processed fish aboard a vessel, on the water or at dockside, shall be considered to be in the person’s possession for the purposes of subsection (2).
(4) A person shall not possess a fish illegally taken.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect April 1, 2011.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5662 of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.
EHB 5481
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
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EHB 5481
