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2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 261
BY SENATOR LUNEAU
WILD REFUGES/PRESERVES. Authorizes two or more parishes to create a game and fish
preserve when the preserve is located in multiple parishes. (8/1/16)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 56:721 and 722(A), relative to parish game and fish preserves;
3 to authorize two or more parish governing authorities to establish a game and fish
4 preserve when the preserve is located in multiple adjoining parishes; to provide for
5 terms, conditions, requirements, and procedures; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 56:721 and 722(A) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as
8 follows:
9 §721. Authorization
10 A. Any parish may by formal resolution of its governing authority establish,
11 maintain, and operate game and fish preserves, upon lands or waterbodies wholly
12 located within in the parish.
13 B. Parish governing authorities may, upon unanimous consent and
14 formal resolutions establish, maintain, and operate game and fish preserves
15 composed of contiguous lands or waterbodies shared by two or more adjoining
16 parishes.
17 §722. Game and fish commission; rules and regulations
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1 A.(1)(a) The governing authority of a parish may appoint a commission
2 composed of citizens and taxpayers of the parish, whose term shall be concurrent
3 with that of the governing authority appointing, who serve without compensation,
4 to be known as the _____________ game and fish commission.
5 (b) For game and fish commissions established by multiple adjoining
6 parishes under the authority of 56:721, the governing authority of each parish
7 may appoint a commission composed of citizens and taxpayers from those
8 parishes, whose term shall be concurrent with that of the governing authority
9 appointing, who serve without compensation, to be known as the _____________
10 game and fish commission. Each parish shall have equal representation on that
11 commission, unless some other composition is unanimously adopted by formal
12 resolution of each parish governing authority.
13 (2) The commission may make rules and regulations for the government,
14 regulation, and control of the preserve and for the conservation, protection, and
15 propagation of game and fish in the preserve, provided that such rules and
16 regulations shall be finally approved, adopted, and promulgated by the Louisiana
17 Wildlife and Fisheries Commission.
18 * * *
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
SB 261 Original 2016 Regular Session Luneau
Present law authorizes any parish by formal resolution of its governing authority to establish,
maintain, and operate game and fish preserves in the parish.
Proposed law authorizes parish governing authorities to, upon unanimous consent and formal
resolutions establish, maintain, and operate game and fish preserves composed of contiguous
lands or waterbodies shared by two or more adjoining parishes.
Present law authorizes the governing authority of a parish to appoint a commission
composed of citizens and taxpayers of the parish, whose term will be concurrent with that
of the governing authority appointing, who serve without compensation, to be known as the
_____________ game and fish commission.
Proposed law authorizes game and fish commissions established by multiple adjoining
parishes according to proposed law to consist of members appointed by the governing
authority of each parish composed of citizens and taxpayers from those parishes, whose term
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will be concurrent with that of the governing authority appointing, who serve without
compensation, to be known as the _____________ game and fish commission. Further
requires that each parish have equal representation on that commission, unless some other
composition is unanimously adopted by formal resolution of each parish governing
authority.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 56:721 and 722(A))
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