§ 20-7-12.1 - Unauthorized possession and/or transfer of pots and traps. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 20-7-12.1

   § 20-7-12.1  Unauthorized possession and/ortransfer of pots and traps. – (a) No person except the director of environmental management, enforcementofficers, and authorized technical personnel of the department of environmentalmanagement shall place, set, keep, maintain, sell, transfer, or have in his orher possession, any pot, trap, car, or any other device used in taking orholding lobster or crabs, nor take, remove, or carry away from the beach orshore any pot, trap, car, or other device or line (warp) or buoy without thewritten permission of the their owner.

   (b) Every person convicted of violating this section shall befined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each offense, or beimprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, and each pot, trap, car, or deviceused in violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense. Inaddition, if that person is licensed, his or her license shall be revoked forone year.