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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3642 Ratification Number:81 Act Number:42 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20010228 Primary Sponsor:Witherspoon All Sponsors:Witherspoon, Sharpe, Allison, Askins, Bales, Barfield, Barrett, J. Brown, Chellis, Clyburn, Dantzler, Edge, Frye, Gilham, Gourdine, Harvin, Hayes, Hosey, Huggins, Keegan, Kelley, Koon, Law, Limehouse, Littlejohn, Martin, McCraw, Moody-Lawrence, Ott, Phillips, Quinn, Rhoad, Riser, Rivers, Sandifer, Snow, Stille, Taylor, Townsend, Walker, Weeks and Whipper Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\swb\5185djc01.doc Companion Bill Number:440 Date Bill Passed both Bodies:20010502 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:20010529 Subject:Importing certain fish, special permits may be issued for educational purposes by Natural Resources Department History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 20010611 Act No. A42 ------ 20010529 Signed by Governor ------ 20010523 Ratified R81 Senate 20010502 Read third time, enrolled for ratification Senate 20010501 Read second time Senate 20010419 Committee report: Favorable 07 SFGF Senate 20010403 Introduced, read first time, 07 SFGF referred to Committee House 20010330 Read third time, sent to Senate House 20010329 Read second time, unanimous consent for third reading on Friday, 20010330 House 20010328 Committee report: Favorable 20 HANR ------ 20010313 Companion Bill No. 440 House 20010228 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR referred to Committee Versions of This Bill Revised on March 28, 2001 - Word format Revised on April 20, 2001 - Word format
(A42, R81, H3642)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-1630, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO SPECIAL PERMITS FOR IMPORTING CERTAIN FISH, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES TO CONDITION PERMITS TO SAFEGUARD PUBLIC SAFETY AND WELFARE AND PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION INTO THE WILD OR RELEASE OF NONNATIVE SPECIES OF FISH OR OTHER ORGANISMS INTO THE WATERS OF THIS STATE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Research permits conditioned to safeguard public safety
SECTION 1. Section 50-13-1630 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 181 of 1993, is further amended to read:
"Section 50-13-1630. (A) No person may possess, sell, offer for sale, import, bring or cause to be brought or imported into this State or release into the waters of this State the following fish:
(1) carnero or candiru catfish (Vandellia cirrhosa);
(2) freshwater electric eel (Electrophorus electricus);
(3) white amur or grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella);
(4) walking catfish or a member of the clariidae family (Clarias, Heteropneustea, Gymnallabes, Channallabes, or Heterobranchus genera);
(5) piranha (all members of Serrasalmus, Rooseveltiella, and Pygocentrus genera);
(6) stickleback;
(7) Mexican banded tetra;
(8) sea lamprey;
(9) rudd (Scardinius erythrophtalmu-Linneaus).
(B) The department may issue special import permits to qualified persons for research and education only.
(C) The department may issue special permits for the stocking of nonreproducing white amur or grass carp hybrids in the waters of this State.
(D) It is unlawful to take grass carp from waters stocked as permitted by this section. Grass carp caught must be returned to the water from which it was taken immediately.
(E) The department must prescribe the qualifications, methods, controls, and restrictions required of a person or his agent to whom a special permit is issued. The department must condition all permits issued under this section to safeguard public safety and welfare and prevent the introduction into the wild or release of nonnative species of fish or other organisms into the waters of this State. The department may promulgate regulations necessary to effectuate this section and specifically to prohibit additional species of fish from being imported, possessed, or sold in this State when the department determines the species of fish are potentially dangerous."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Ratified the 23rd day of May, 2001.
Approved the 29th day of May, 2001.
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