TITLE 20
Fish and Wildlife
CHAPTER 20-3
Marine Fisheries Council
SECTION 20-3-4
§ 20-3-4 Shellfish and marine life
management areas.
The council may recommend to the director of environmental management, the
designation of certain portions of the shores of the public waters of the
state, or land within the state covered by tidewater at either high or low
tide, or portions of the free and common fisheries of the state as shellfish or
marine life project management areas for the purpose of enhancing the
cultivation and growth of marine species, managing the harvest of marine
species, facilitating the conduct by the department of experiments in planting,
cultivating, propagating, managing, and developing any and all kinds of marine
life, and any other related purpose. The designation shall be pursuant to the
Administrative Procedures Act, chapter 35 of title 42, and shall be by
reference to fixed landmarks. The council, upon the designation of a management
area, shall propose any rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary for
the protection and management of the management area and the animal life and
property in the management area, including the exclusion or restriction of
persons from the area or the prohibition of certain activities within the areas
or other restrictions as it may deem necessary. Upon the designation of a
management area, the director of environmental management shall place any
stakes, bounds, buoys or markers with the words "Rhode Island department of
environmental management" plainly marked on them, as will approximate the
management area. Failure to place or maintain the stakes, bounds, buoys, or
markers shall not be admissible in any judicial or administrative proceeding.
The director may make any experiments or conduct any activities as in his or
her discretion are appropriate in these management areas.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3; P.L. 1987, ch. 254, § 2; P.L. 2004, ch.
359, § 2.)
