Any municipality bounded by the Gulf of Mexico or Mississippi Sound, which has wholly or partly within its corporate limits, or in the waters adjacent thereto, a public oyster reef reserved for catching oysters exclusively by use of hand tongs, is hereby authorized to aid and cooperate with the department in enforcing all laws regulating the catching, taking and transporting of oysters, including all of the provisions of this chapter, and all regulations and ordinances of such department relating to such oyster reefs.Codes, 1942, § 6085-01; Laws, 1944, ch. 286, §§ 1-7; Laws, 1958, ch. 195, § 64; Laws, 2000, ch. 516, § 87, eff. 4/30/2000.Amended by Laws, 2023, ch. 496, SB 2544,§ 20, eff. 4/17/2023.
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