Sec. 26-14. Federal aid for fish restoration projects. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 26-14. Federal aid for fish restoration projects. The state hereby assents to the provisions of Public Law 681, 81st Congress, entitled "An Act to Provide that the United States Shall Aid the States in Fish Restoration and Management Projects, and for Other Purposes", approved August 9, 1950, and the Commissioner of Environmental Protection is directed to perform such acts as may be necessary to the conduct and establishment of cooperative fish restoration projects, as defined in said act, in compliance with said act and rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior thereunder; and no funds accruing to the state from license fees paid by fishermen shall be diverted for any other purpose than the protection, propagation, preservation and investigation of fish and game and administration of the functions of the department relating thereto.

      (1951, S. 2461d; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 216.)

      History: 1971 act replaced references to state board of fisheries and game with references to commissioner and department of environmental protection.