The council, with the approval of the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, may license any person or corporation to lay any pipe or pipes on or under the lands of the State under tidewaters under such terms and restrictions as to duration, compensation to be paid, and such other conditions and restrictions as the interests of the State may require. Such license shall be granted by a written instrument and executed in the same manner as grants of land under tidewaters are required to be executed.
Amended 1979, c.311, s.3; 2009, c.40, s.11.