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. The 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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