1. No person other than the lessee or the department shall mark out or enclose in any manner, any state-owned lands under water for the purpose of planting shellfish thereon or excluding the general public therefrom. 2. No person shall wilfully injure or remove any monument, stake or boundary marker of any kind, placed for the purpose of delineating or locating state owned shellfish lands except by authority of the department.
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