266 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



ARTICLE II. 

 Fish and Game Protectors' and Foresters' Powers and Duties. 



Section 20. Fish and game protectors and foresters, how appointed. 



21. Terms of office of fish and game protectors and foresters. 



22. Chief fish and game protector and forester. 



23. Protectors and foresters to give bonds. 



24. Compensation of protectors and foresters. 



25. Office of chief protector and forester to be at the capitol. 



26. Duties of protectors and foresters. 



27. Records and reports. 



28. Payment of salary and expenses. 



29. Reports by chief protector and forester to the board of fisheries, game and 



forest. 



30. Special protectors. 



31. Powers of sheriffs, constables and deputy sheriffs. 



32. Nets to be destroyed by protectors and foresters. 



33. Expense of seizure of nets. 



Fish and Game Protectors and Foresters, How Appointed. 



§ 20. The fisheries, game and forest commission shall appoint thirty-five fish and game 

 protectors and foresters, whose powers and duties are hereinafter defined, and who shall be known 

 as fisheries and game protectors and foresters. 



Terms of Office of Fish and Game Protectors and Foresters. 



§ 21. Fish and game protectors and foresters so appointed, shall hold office during the 

 pleasure of the board of commissioners, which may summarily, remove any of their number and 

 appoint another in his place. 



Chief Fish and Game Protector and Forester. 



§ 22. The commission shall, from time to time, designate one of such protectors as chief 

 fish and game protector and forester, and two others as his assistants, under whatever title he 

 may give them, and the three protectors and foresters so designated shall hold office during the 

 pleasure of the commission ; the commissioners shall further designate another protector to act 

 as state oyster protector, and another protector to act as protector of the waters of the Thousand 

 Islands, and the protectors so designated shall hold office during the pleasure of the board. The 

 chief fish and game protector and forester shall have the direction, supervision and control of 

 the entire force. 



(As amd. by chap. 531 of Laws of 1896.) 



