Current Status Bill Number:4591 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19960213 Primary Sponsor:Witherspoon All Sponsors:Witherspoon Drafted Document Number:dka\3473jm.96 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee 20 HANR Subject:Bass, striped; taking of
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House 19960213 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR
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TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-235, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION AGAINST THE TAKING OF STRIPED BASS LESS THAN TWENTY-ONE INCHES UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, SO AS TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR THOSE RIVERS, RESERVOIRS, AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO TAKE OR POSSESS STRIPED BASS LESS THAN TWENTY-ONE INCHES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 50-13-235 of the 1976 Code, as amended by Act 117 of 1995, is further amended to read:
"Section 50-13-235. It is unlawful to take or possess striped bass, rockfish, less than twenty-one inches in the following rivers, reservoirs, and their tributaries: Lakes Marion and Moultrie, the Congaree River, the Wateree River northward to the Lake Wateree Dam, the Lower Saluda River northward to the Lake Murray Dam, the Broad River from its confluence with the Lower Saluda River northward to the Columbia Dam, and the Santee River from the saltwater-freshwater dividing line, U.S. Highway 17, to the Intracoastal Waterway. It is unlawful to take or possess striped bass, rockfish, less than twenty-one inches in southward to the Intercoastal Waterway, the Tailrace Canal from the Pinopolis Dam to the Cooper River, the Cooper River, in including the east and west branches of the Cooper River downstream to the U.S. Highway 17 bridge, and in the Wando River."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.