§ 4-27-18

4:27-18 Aquatic health management plan. 18. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Aquaculture Advisory Council, shall develop and adopt, within one year of the effective date of this act and in accordance with the 'Administrative Procedure Act,' P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations establishing an aquatic health management plan designed to protect public and private aquaculturists and wild aquatic populations from the importation of non-endemic disease causing organisms, and to assist in facilitating the exportation and importation of aquatic species into and out of the State. L.1997,c.236,s.18.