LAC 76:IX.101. Authority and Purpose

A. These regulations are adopted pursuant to the authority of the "Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act," Acts 1988, No. 947, Section 1, effective July 27, 1988, or R.S. 56:1840 et seq. B. The purpose of these regulations is to establish procedures and provide a mechanism whereby the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries can preserve, protect, develop, reclaim and enhance the wilderness qualities, scenic beauties and ecological regime of rivers and streams or segments thereof included within the Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers and Historic and Scenic Rivers System and for the further purposes of preserving aesthetic, scenic, recreational, fish, wildlife, ecological, archaeological, geological, botanical and other natural and physical features and resources found along these rivers and streams or segments thereof.