Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4360 Primary Sponsor:Inabinett Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Trawling areas, restricted Residing Body:House Computer Document Number:NO5/7499BDW.94 Introduced Date:19940111 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940406 Last History Type:Committee Report: Favorable Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Inabinett Fulmer Type of Legislation:General Bill
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4360 House 19940406 Committee Report: majority 20
favorable, minority
unfavorable
4360 House 19940111 Introduced, read first time, 20
referred to Committee
4360 House 19931208 Prefiled, referred to 20
Committee
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COMMITTEE REPORT
April 6, 1994
H. 4360
S. Printed 4/6/94--H.
Read the first time January 11, 1994.
To whom was referred a Bill (H. 4360), to amend Section 50-17-1010, as amended, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to restricted trawling areas, etc., respectfully
That they have duly and carefully considered the same, and recommend that the same do pass:
Majority favorable. Minority unfavorable.
THOMAS N. RHOAD WILLIAM D. KEYSERLING
For Majority. For Minority.
TO AMEND SECTION 50-17-1010, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO RESTRICTED TRAWLING AREAS, SO AS TO CHANGE THE REFERENCE POINT BY WHICH DISTANCES ARE MEASURED, TO ESTABLISH RESTRICTED AREAS OFF KIAWAH AND SEABROOK ISLANDS AND OFF EDISTO BEACH, TO PROVIDE FOR DISTANCES TO BE MEASURED FROM THE SHORELINE, AND TO DEFINE SHORELINE; AND TO REPEAL SECTION 50-17-1040 RELATING TO RESTRICTED TRAWLING AREAS NEAR EDISTO BEACH.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 50-17-1010 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 181 of 1993, is further amended to read:
"Section 50-17-1010. (A) There are established as restricted trawling areas the following areas or portions of the coastal and ocean beds of Beaufort, Charleston, and Colleton Counties:
(1) that portion or area lying northeast of the north jetty at the mouth of Charleston Harbor and the line of the north jetty extended one-half mile into the ocean and lying southwest of a line running southeast (true), starting at a point on the northeast shore of the inlet known as Dewees Inlet on the Dewees Island side of the inlet, which point is where the northeast shore of the inlet at mean high water the shoreline intersects the ocean beach line of Dewees Island, and which line runs from the point southeast (true) one-half mile into the ocean, the area so designated being all that lies to the southeast of the ocean beaches or shores of Sullivan's Island and the Isle of Palms and southeast of the beach lines extended across all intervening inlets or breaks in the beach lines and between the two lines designated in this item and extending one-half mile into the ocean;
(2) that portion or area lying southwest of a line running due southeast (true), starting at a point on the southwest shore of the inlet known as Morris Island Lighthouse Inlet on the Folly Island side of the inlet, which point is where the southwest shore of the inlet at mean high water the shoreline intersects the ocean beach line of Folly Island, and which line runs from the point southeast (true) one-half mile into the ocean, and lying northeast of a line running southeast (true), starting at a point where West Sixth Street intersects the ocean beach of Folly Island, and which line runs from the point southeast (true) one-half mile into the ocean, the area so designated being all that lies to the southeast of the ocean beach or shore of Folly Island between the two lines designated in this item and extending one-half mile into the ocean. The southwest end of the area from Stono Inlet to West Sixth Street is unrestricted to within a quarter mile of the beach at the low-water mark shoreline;
(3) that portion or area lying northeast of a line running due southeast (true) extending from the shoreline of the southwesternmost point of Seabrook Island one-quarter mile into the ocean and that area west of a line continuing in a northeasterly direction one-quarter mile offshore from the shoreline of the ocean beach line of Seabrook and Kiawah Islands and southwest of a line running due southeast (true) extending from the shoreline of the easternmost point of Kiawah Island known as Sandy Point one-quarter mile into the ocean;
(4) notwithstanding the provisions of item (5), that area within one-quarter mile of the shoreline off Edisto Beach in Charleston and Colleton Counties between the points of Frampton Inlet and State Highway No. 174;
(3)(5) that portion or area lying northeast of a line running due southeast (true), starting at a point on the northeast shore of the mouth of South Edisto River on the Edisto Island side of the inlet, at the place now known as Edisto Beach, formerly as McConkey's Beach, which point is where the northeast shore of the river at its mouth at mean high water the shoreline intersects the ocean beach line of Edisto Beach, and which line runs from the point southeast (true) one-half mile into the ocean, and lying southwest of a line running southeast (true), starting at a point on the southwest shore of the inlet known as Frampton's Inlet on the Edingsville Beach side of the inlet, which point is where the southwest shore of the inlet at mean high water the shoreline intersects the ocean beach line of Edingsville Beach on Edisto Island, and which line runs from the point southeast (true) one-half mile into the ocean, the area so designated being all that lies to the southeast of the ocean beaches or shores of Edisto Island known as Edisto Beach and Edingsville Beach and between the two lines designated in this item and extending one-half mile into the ocean;
(4)(6) that area within one-quarter mile of the shores shoreline of the ocean beaches of Hunting Island and Fripp Island and within one-quarter mile of the beach of Hilton Head from Braddock Cove along the beach shoreline to Fish Haul Creek in Beaufort County.
(B) The areas described in this section are restricted only from May fifteenth through September fifteenth each year. All distances in this section are measured from the shoreline, which is defined as the point at which ocean waters intersect the beach at any stage of the tide."
SECTION 2. Section 50-17-1040 of the 1976 Code is repealed.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.