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- RS 56:1 · Wildlife and Fisheries Commission established; membership; qualifications; definitions
- RS 56:2 · Supervision and direction of commission; meetings
- RS 56:3 · Ownership of wild birds, quadrupeds, fish, aquatic life, water bottoms, oysters, and shellfish
- RS 56:4 · Authority of Department of Conservation and Energy over navigable water bottoms
- RS 56:5 · General powers and authority
- RS 56:6 · Special powers and duties; statistics; rules and regulations; reports
- RS 56:6.1 · Emergency closure of hunting or fishing seasons; rules and regulations; prohibitions; penalties
- RS 56:6.2 · Advisory committees
- RS 56:7 · Domicile of commission; service of process; suits; parties
- RS 56:7.1 · Jesse J. Guidry Center for Wildlife and Fisheries Resources
- RS 56:8 · Definitions
- RS 56:9 · Report of violations; criminal prosecution; schedule of fines; citations; ex officio notaries public
- RS 56:10 · Annual report to governor; estimate of proposed expenditures; particular funds; limitations on purposes for use of monies in particular funds and accounts; warrants; vouchers; surplus funds
- RS 56:10.1 · Aquatic Plant Control Dedicated Fund Account; creation; uses
- RS 56:10.2 · Derelict Houseboat Fund Account
- RS 56:10.3 · Lifetime License Endowment Trust Account
- RS 56:11 · Bond of director and employees
- RS 56:12 · Boats and other movable property
- RS 56:13 · Placing of advertising signs on state-owned property
- RS 56:13.1 · Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 804, §2, eff. July 2, 1999.
- RS 56:14 · Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 612, §22, eff. July 1, 2020.
- RS 56:15 · Prohibited acts involving interstate commerce
- RS 56:16 · Intentional concealment, destruction, or deposit of illegal fish, wildlife, or other animals; penalties
- RS 56:17 · Taking fish for purpose of science and cultivation; permits; propagation of fish
- RS 56:18 · Trespass on or injury to structures or areas used for scientific experiments
- RS 56:19 · Exchange of fish hatched at fish hatcheries for fish roe or fish eggs
- RS 56:20 · Releasing game, fowl, or fish; permission; intrastate restocking; importation; violations
- RS 56:21 · Stocking waters with fish
- RS 56:22 · Rules and regulations for protection and preservation of fish
- RS 56:23 · Penalty for violations
- RS 56:24 · Contract by commission with private landowners for use of lands for wildlife management areas in consideration for relief from certain taxation
- RS 56:25 · Fish and wildlife restoration and management projects; assent to federal aid act; duties of commission
- RS 56:26 · Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 566, §2.
- RS 56:27 · Management and harvesting of fish in private ponds exempt from statutory limitations; permits; exceptions
- RS 56:28 · Official badges, identification cards, other insignia
- RS 56:29 · Interference with marks or buoys
- RS 56:30 · Department of Wildlife and Fisheries; powers; duties; functions; periodic evaluation of fees and charges imposed
- RS 56:30.1 · Department of Wildlife and Fisheries; issuance of licenses and permits for hunting and fishing
- RS 56:30.2 · Notice to legislators
- RS 56:30.3 · Lease of state lands; access to public waterways
- RS 56:30.4 · Geophysical and geological surveys
- RS 56:30.5 · Notice to parish governing authorities
- RS 56:31 · Class one violations
- RS 56:31.1 · Revocation of license; denial of license; penalties
- RS 56:32 · Class two violation
- RS 56:32.1 · Civil suit for recovery of value
- RS 56:33 · Class three violation
- RS 56:34 · Class four violation
- RS 56:35 · Class five violation
- RS 56:36 · Class six violation
- RS 56:37 · Class seven violation
- RS 56:37.1 · Class eight violation
- RS 56:38 · Revocation of license
- RS 56:39 · Forfeiture of quadrupeds, birds, and fish; Fish and Wildlife Violations Reward Fund, creation and use of fund monies
- RS 56:40.1 · Liability for value of fish, wild birds, wild quadrupeds, and other wildlife and aquatic life
- RS 56:40.2 · Value of fish, wild birds, wild quadrupeds, and other wildlife and aquatic life
- RS 56:40.3 · Civil penalties; assessment; administrative hearing
- RS 56:40.4 · Civil suit for recovery of value
- RS 56:40.5 · Venue and procedure
- RS 56:40.6 · More than one defendant
- RS 56:40.7 · Recovery of value in addition to fine
- RS 56:40.8 · Both civil suit and criminal prosecution permissible; exceptions
- RS 56:40.9 · Disposition of recovery
- RS 56:41 · Repealed by Acts 1981, No. 837, §4
- RS 56:45 · Jurisdiction of trial of violations
- RS 56:46 · Venue when river divides parishes
- RS 56:47 · Venue when offense committed in lake, bay, or other body of water
- RS 56:48 · Venue when offense committed in the Gulf of Mexico
- RS 56:49 · Venue when exact place of vessel cannot be determined
- RS 56:50 · Venue; exception when exact place cannot be determined
- RS 56:51 · Limits of state sovereignty
- RS 56:52 · Issuance of search warrants
- RS 56:53 · Commissioned wildlife enforcement agents of the enforcement division may carry weapons
- RS 56:54 · License requirements; enforcement by wildlife agents; arrest without warrant
- RS 56:54.1 · Prima facie evidence of violation of law
- RS 56:55 · Search with or without warrant
- RS 56:55.1 · Toledo Bend Reservoir; assignment of officers
- RS 56:55.2 · Additional authority of commissioned wildlife enforcement agents
- RS 56:55.3 · Boats maintained for enforcement; vehicle equipment
- RS 56:56 · Seizure or surrender of things illegally used or possessed
- RS 56:57 · Seizure of vessels, airplanes, vehicles, and equipment
- RS 56:57.1 · Forfeitures for fraud
- RS 56:57.2 · Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 416, §2.
- RS 56:57.3 · Licenses; fraudulent acquisition; penalty
- RS 56:57.4 · Repealed by Acts 2015, No. 416, §3.
- RS 56:58 · Disposition of seizures other than vessels, airplanes, and other vehicles
- RS 56:59 · Disposition of seized vessels, airplanes, vehicles, and equipment therefor
- RS 56:60 · Confiscation of things seized
- RS 56:61 · Disposition of things, other than vessels, airplanes, vehicles and equipment, confiscated or forfeited to the department
- RS 56:62 · Time limit for retention of things seized
- RS 56:63 · Proceeds of sales of things seized; commingling with conservation fund
- RS 56:64 · Proceeds of sales of things seized; no liability after two years
- RS 56:65 · No liability for acts performed in good faith
- RS 56:66 · No criminal liability for covert operations officers
- RS 56:67 · Enforcement of civil judgment
- RS 56:68 · Aviation unit; powers and duties
- RS 56:68.1 · Federal enforcement officers; Avoyelles Parish; Cameron Parish; Calcasieu Parish
- RS 56:68.2 · Federal enforcement; saltwater fisheries laws
- RS 56:69 · Exemptions from traffic regulations
- RS 56:69.1 · Purpose