In addition to other powers and duties, the director: A. may acquire land or aquatic habitat interests for the conservation, management, restoration, propagation and protection of threatened or endangered species; and B. shall conduct studies to determine the status and requirements for survival of threatened or endangered species. History: 1953 Comp., § 53-2-57, enacted by Laws 1974, ch. 83, § 8; 1995, ch. 145, § 7. ANNOTATIONSThe 1995 amendment rewrote the section heading which read 'Commission; land acquisition; state plan studies'; in Subsection A, substituted 'land or aquatic habitat interests' for 'lands, waters or interests therein' and inserted 'threatened or'; deleted former Subsection B, relating to public hearings on a state plan for endangered species; and redesignated former Subsection C as Subsection B and inserted 'threatened or' therein.
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