Bill Text: SC S0545 | 2021-2022 | 124th General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Santee River Set Hooks

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-01 - Act No. 57 [S0545 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2021-S0545-Comm_Sub.html

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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ADOPTED

March 9, 2021

S. 545

Introduced by Senator Goldfinch

S. Printed 3/9/21--S.

Read the first time February 11, 2021.

                        

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-675, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO NONGAME FISHING DEVICES PERMITTED IN CERTAIN BODIES OF WATER, SO AS TO ALLOW FOR THE USE OF SET HOOKS WITHIN A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE SANTEE RIVER.

Amend Title To Conform

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 50-13-675(46) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"(46)    Santee River, from USGS gauging station 1715 about 2.4 miles below Santee Dam downstream to the saltwater/freshwater dividing line including the North and South Santee Rivers:

(a)    eel pots:

(i)     recreational license-two;

(ii)    commercial license-seventy-five;

(b)    skimbow nets:

(i)     recreational license only-one;

(c)    traps:

(i)     recreational license-two;

(ii)    commercial license-fifty;

(d)    trotlines:

(i)     recreational license-one line with fifty hooks maximum;

(ii)    commercial license-five lines with two hundred fifty hooks maximum;

(e)    set hooks:

(i)     recreational license-fifty;

(ii)    commercial license-fifty;"

SECTION    2.    Section 50-13-675(55)(a) of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"(i)    commercial license only-ten;"

SECTION    3.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.