Bill Text: PA HB805 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: In fishing licenses, further providing for exemptions from license requirements.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 34-13)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-23 - Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES [HB805 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB805-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  824

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

805

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY HICKERNELL, J. EVANS, ADOLPH, AUMENT, BARBIN, BOYD, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CONKLIN, P. COSTA, CUTLER, DENLINGER, EVERETT, FLECK, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRELL, GROVE, HESS, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, M.K. KELLER, KILLION, KULA, LONGIETTI, MANN, MARSHALL, MILLARD, MILLER, MOUL, PICKETT, RAPP, READSHAW, ROCK, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, STERN, STURLA AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 23, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 23, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes, in fishing licenses, further providing for

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exemptions from license requirements.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 2709(b) of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

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§ 2709.  Exemptions from license requirements.

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(b)  Persons who are blind or have certain physical or mental

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impairments.--The provisions of this chapter do not apply to

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those persons who are totally blind, are paraplegic or similarly

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disabled in the lower extremities or have such severe physical

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or mental impairments that they are unable to cast or retrieve a

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line or bait hooks and remove fish if only one legal device is

 


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used and the person who is blind or has physical or mental

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impairments as described in this section is within ten feet of

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the device being used. The provisions of this chapter also do

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not apply to the attendant of the person who is blind or has

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physical or mental impairments described in this section while

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assisting in using the device.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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