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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3237 Ratification Number:67 Act Number:31 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20010110 Primary Sponsor:Witherspoon All Sponsors:Witherspoon, Frye, Littlejohn Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\swb\5096djc01.doc Date Bill Passed both Bodies:20010410 Date of Last Amendment:20010405 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:20010529 Subject:Trotlines, use of bream as bait on; prohibition for use on certain rivers removed; Fish and Game History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 20010611 Act No. A31 ------ 20010529 Signed by Governor ------ 20010523 Ratified R67 Senate 20010410 Concurred in House amendment, enrolled for ratification House 20010405 Senate amendments amended, returned to Senate with amendment House 20010404 Debate adjourned on Senate amendments Senate 20010329 Read third time, returned to House with amendment ------ 20010329 Scrivener's error corrected Senate 20010328 Read second time Senate 20010328 Committee amendment adopted Senate 20010327 Committee report: Favorable with 07 SFGF amendment Senate 20010214 Introduced, read first time, 07 SFGF referred to Committee House 20010214 Read third time, sent to Senate House 20010213 Read second time House 20010207 Committee report: Favorable 20 HANR House 20010110 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR referred to Committee Versions of This Bill Revised on February 7, 2001 - Word format Revised on March 27, 2001 - Word format Revised on March 28, 2001 - Word format Revised on March 29, 2001 - Word format Revised on April 5, 2001 - Word format
(A31, R67, H3237)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-1187, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO BAIT THAT MAY BE USED WITH TROTLINES, SET HOOKS, AND JUGS, SO AS TO REMOVE THE PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF BREAM AS BAIT ON CERTAIN TROTLINES AFTER JUNE 30, 2001, ON THE EDISTO, BLACK, SAMPIT, BIG PEE DEE, LITTLE PEE DEE, LUMBER, AND WACCAMAW RIVERS, AND TO ALSO REMOVE THE PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF BREAM AS BAIT ON TROTLINES AFTER JUNE 30, 2001, ON THE BLACK, BIG PEE DEE, LITTLE PEE DEE, LUMBER, AND WACCAMAW RIVERS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Bait which may be used with trotlines, set hooks, and jugs; violations; penalties
SECTION 1. Section 50-13-1187 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 53 of 1999, is further amended to read:
"Section 50-13-1187. (A) Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C), no game fish, live bait, or other bait other than bait listed below may be used with trotlines, set hooks, and jugs:
(1) soap;
(2) dough balls;
(3) cut fish which must be nongame fish cut into at least three equal parts;
(4) shrimp;
(5) meat scraps which may not include insects, worms, or other invertebrates;
(6) grapes.
(B) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, on the Edisto, Black, Sampit, Big Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, Lumber, and Waccamaw Rivers, live nongame fish and bream may be used with single-barbed set hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of one and three-sixteenths inches or greater. However, it is unlawful for any person to have in his possession more than thirty bream while fishing with nongame tackle on these rivers.
(C) Live nongame fish and bream may be used on trotlines having not more than twenty hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of one and three-sixteenths inches or greater on the Black, Big Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, Lumber, and Waccamaw Rivers. However, it is unlawful for any person to have in his possession more than thirty bream while fishing with nongame tackle on these rivers.
(D) Any person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Ratified the 23rd day of May, 2001.
Approved the 29th day of May, 2001.
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