Current Status Bill Number:3142 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19970114 Primary Sponsor:Witherspoon All Sponsors:Witherspoon Drafted Document Number:pt\2652jm.97 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Agriculture, Natural Resources & Environmental Affairs Com 20 HANR Subject:Set hooks, single-barbed, live nongame fish, Edisto River
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved
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House 19970114 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR
referred to Committee
House 19970108 Prefiled, referred to Committee 20 HANR
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TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-1187, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF NONGAME FISH AND BAIT WHICH MAY BE USED WITH TROTLINE, SET HOOKS, AND JUGS, SO AS TO CHANGE THE SIZE OF THE SINGLE-BARBED SET HOOKS WITH WHICH LIVE NONGAME FISH MAY BE USED ON THE EDISTO RIVER.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 50-13-1187(B) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 24 of 1995, is amended to read:
"(B) Notwithstanding this section, on the Edisto River live nongame fish may be used with 9/0 or larger single-barbed set hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of 1-3/16 (one and three-sixteenths) inches or greater."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.