1-1 By: Hunter of Nueces (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 3046
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
1-3 May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to vessels and obstructions in fish passes.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Sections 66.204(a) and (b), Parks and Wildlife
1-11 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) The commission by proclamation may regulate the
1-13 placement of obstructions, traps, and mooring in fish passes and
1-14 the marking of restricted areas in any natural or artificial pass
1-15 that is opened, reopened, dredged, excavated, constructed, or
1-16 maintained by the department as a fish pass between the Gulf of
1-17 Mexico and an inland bay.
1-18 (b) No person may operate, possess, or moor a vessel or
1-19 other floating device, or may place any piling, wire, rope, cable,
1-20 net, trap, or other obstruction, in a natural or artificial pass
1-21 opened, reopened, dredged, excavated, constructed, or maintained by
1-22 the department as a fish pass between the Gulf of Mexico and an
1-23 inland bay <,> within the <a> distance <of 2,800 feet> inside the
1-24 pass <measured> from the mouth of the pass where it empties into
1-25 <or opens on> the Gulf of Mexico and a permanent marker or sign
1-26 erected by the department indicating the restricted area.
1-27 <(b) The department shall erect permanent iron or concrete
1-28 monuments showing the restricted area.>
1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-35 passage, and it is so enacted.
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