Section 401.

The State of California hereby assents to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in fish restoration and management projects, and for other purposes," approved August 9, 1950 (Public Law 681, Eighty-first Congress), and the department, with the approval of the commission, may perform such acts as may be necessary to the conduct and establishment of cooperative fish restoration projects, as defined in said act of Congress, in compliance with said act and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and no funds accruing to the State of California from license fees paid by fishermen shall be diverted for any other purpose than the administration of the Department of Fish and Game and for the protection, propagation, preservation, and investigation of fish and game.

(Enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456.)