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HB212
AUW6SQQ-1
By Representatives Kirkland, Ross, Colvin, Whorton
RFD: Agriculture and Forestry
First Read: 06-Feb-25
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First Read: 06-Feb-25
SYNOPSIS:
This bill would require persons engaging in the
business of cutting or uprooting aquatic plants in
public waters to employ certain methods to ensure cut
and uprooted plant matter is removed from these waters.
This bill would also provide criminal penalties
for violating this requirement.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to state waters; to require persons engaging
in the business of cutting or uprooting aquatic plants in
public waters to use certain methods to remove this plant
matter; and to provide criminal penalties for violations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) Any person engaging in the business of
cutting, trimming, severing, or uprooting aquatic plants
within public waters, as defined in Section 9-11-80, Code of
Alabama 1975, shall employ commercially reasonable methods to
remove any cut, trimmed, severed, or uprooted aquatic plant
matter from public waters.
(b)(1) A person who violates this section shall be
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(b)(1) A person who violates this section shall be
guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and shall be fined not less
than five hundred dollars ($500) to be remitted to the primary
enforcing law enforcement agency.
(c) The Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources shall adopt rules to implement and administer this
section, including establishing commercially reasonable
methods of removing, cutting, trimming, severing, or uprooting
aquatic plants.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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