Bill 1353

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               1353
Ratification Number:       760
Act Number                 645
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Waters closed to trawling

(A645, R760, S1353)

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 50-17-618 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE WATERS OF THE STATE THAT ARE CLOSED TO TRAWLING; AND TO AMEND SECTION 50-17-617, RELATING TO LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, MARKERS, BUOYS, AND TOPOGRAPHY REFERENCES TO THE AREAS IN WHICH IT IS LAWFUL TO TRAWL FOR SHRIMP OR PRAWN, SO AS TO INCLUDE THE WATERS CLOSED TO TRAWLING.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Waters closed to trawling

SECTION 1. Article 6, Chapter 17, Title 50 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 50-17-618. The following waters of this State as described below are closed to trawling at all times:

(1) that area of Calibogue Sound delineated in Section 50-17-615(1) and bounded to the seaward by a line described in Section 50-17-610 as follows: beginning at Marker SC 1; latitude 32 degrees 07.1'N. and longitude 80 degrees 50.4'W.; running east across Calibogue Sound to Marker SC 2; and latitude 32 degrees 07.1'N. and longitude 80 degrees 49.6'W.;

(2) that area of Port Royal Sound delineated in Section 50-17-615(2) and bounded to the seaward by a line described in Section 50-17-610 as follows: beginning at the northernmost point of Hilton Head Island and continuing to a flashing light designated on National Ocean Survey Chart 11513 as FL R 4 sec '6' and to FL 2.5 sec '3' at the northern tip of Hilton Head Island, running easterly through bell buoy No. R '2'; continuing to red-lighted gong buoy; and to black day marker No. A-19 at the mouth of Station Creek;

(3) that area of St. Helena Sound delineated in Section 50-17-615(3) and bounded to the seaward by a line described in Section 50-17-610 as follows: beginning at the Highway 21 Bridge crossing Harbor River, from the center of the swing span of the Highway 21 Bridge in a northeasterly direction to Marker A6; continuing to the flashing range light on the Combahee Bank; to Marker SC 5 on the west of Otter Island at latitude 32 degrees 29.1'N. and longitude 80 degrees 25.2'W.; seaward along the shoreline of Otter Island to a point at the mouth of Jefford and Fish Creek on the southern tip of Otter Island opposite Pine Island; and turning and running in a southeasterly direction to the southernmost tip of Bay Point on Edisto Island;

(4) that area within Bull Bay lying seaward, beginning at the mouths of all creeks and rivers entering Bull Bay."

References

SECTION 2. Section 50-17-617 of the 1976 Code, as added by an act of 1988 bearing ratification number 643, is amended to read:

"Section 50-17-617. In describing the areas set forth in Sections 50-17-610, 50-17-615, and 50-17-618, all references to latitude, longitude, markers, buoys, and topography refer to NOAA, National Ocean Survey Nautical Charts Nos. 11513, 11521, 11531, and 11535, and future revisions of these charts."

Time effective

SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.