§101.2. Policy and purpose
A. The legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest and within the
police power of this state to establish a fishermen's gear compensation and underwater
obstruction removal program and a fishermen's gear compensation and underwater
obstruction removal dedicated fund account to provide for the proper and timely
identification, inventory, and removal of underwater obstructions that are a hazard to
navigation and commercial fishing in the state, and to compensate commercial fishermen for
damage to their fishing gear from the underwater obstructions. The program and fund
account shall be administered, for purposes of fishermen's gear compensation, by the
assistant secretary of the office of coastal management and, for purposes of underwater
obstruction, by the assistant secretary of the office of conservation, both with the Department
of Energy and Natural Resources.
B. Nothing in this Part shall be deemed to alter or impair any rights and
responsibilities established by contract between private parties.
Acts 1997, No. 666, §2; Acts 2021, No. 114, §18, eff. July 1, 2022; Acts 2022, No.
100, §2, eff. July 1, 2023; Acts 2023, No. 150, §5, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.
NOTE: See R.S. 30:101.15 regarding the termination of Part after June 30, 2027.