Revision: Dec. 14, 2021, 1:47 p.m.
SB 266 - AS INTRODUCED
2022 SESSION
22-3000
04/10
SENATE BILL 266
AN ACT relative to the limitations on taking another person's lobster or crab trap or pot.
SPONSORS: Sen. French, Dist 7; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 1; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Rep. Hill, Merr. 3
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill inserts an exception to the prohibition on taking another person's lobster or crab trap or pot.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22-3000
04/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two
AN ACT relative to the limitations on taking another person's lobster or crab trap or pot.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Lobsters and Crabs; Limitation. Amend RSA 211:31, I to read as follows:
I. No person, except the owner or a conservation officer, shall take up, lift, molest, have in his or her possession, or transfer any pot, trap, car or other contrivance that is set for the taking or holding of lobsters or crabs, nor take, remove or carry away from the beach or shore, any such pot, trap, car or other contrivance or warp or buoy without the written permission of the owner, except for those that are clearly abandoned or no longer may be used for their intended purpose. In addition to the penalty for violation of this section, said person, if he or she holds a license, shall lose said license for one year.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.