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FISH AND GAME 
PART V. 
FISH AND GAME DISTRICTS, 
PUBLIC WAYS AND 
RESERVATIONS. 
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DIVISION OF STATE INTO FISH AND GAME 
DISTRICTS. 
State Constitution, Art. IV, Sec. 25i. The 
legislature may provide for the division of the 
state into fish and game districts, and may enact 
such laws for the protection of fish and game 
therein as it may deem appropriate to the re- 
spective districts. 
[Adopted 1902.] 
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO FISH IN 
STATE WATERS. 
State Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 25. The 
people shall have the right to fish upon and from 
the public lands of the state and in the waters 
thereof, excepting upon lands set aside for fish 
hatcheries, and no land owned by the state shall, 
ever be sold or transferred without reserving in 
the people the absolute right to fish thereupon ; 
and no law shall ever be passed making it a crime 
for the people to enter upon the public lands 
within this state for the purpose of fishing in any 
water containing fish that have been planted therein 
by the state ; provided, that the legislature may 
by statute provide for the season when and the 
conditions under which the different species of fish 
may be taken. 
[Adopted 1910.] 
