49-5-27 - Fish restoration and management projects. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 49-5-27. Fish restoration and management projects.
 

The State of Mississippi hereby assents to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An Act to Provide that the United States Shall Aid the States in Fish Restoration and Management Projects," approved August 9, 1950 (Public Laws 681, 81st Congress), and the commission may perform such acts as may be necessary to the conduct and establishment of cooperative fish restoration projects, as defined in that act of Congress in compliance with the act and rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Department of Interior thereunder; and no funds accruing to the State of Mississippi from license fees paid by fishermen shall be diverted for any other purpose than the administration of the department and for the protection, propagation, preservation and investigation of fish and game. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 5927.3; Laws,  1952, ch. 188, §§ 1, 2; Laws, 2000, ch. 516, § 36, eff from and after passage (approved Apr. 30, 2000.)