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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, BENNINGHOFF, PHILLIPS, BEYER, EVERETT, HARHAI, KORTZ, METCALFE, MOUL AND PYLE, FEBRUARY 2, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 2, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated |
2 | Statutes, further providing for recreational hunting on |
3 | commission-owned lands. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 722 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania |
7 | Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read: |
8 | § 722. Use of property. |
9 | * * * |
10 | (d) Recreational hunting.-- |
11 | (1) Subject to valid existing rights, commission-owned |
12 | lands shall be open to access and use for recreational |
13 | hunting except as limited by the commission for reasons of |
14 | public safety, fish or wildlife management, or homeland |
15 | security or as otherwise limited by law. |
16 | (2) The commission shall exercise its authority, |
17 | consistent with paragraph (1), in a manner to support, |
18 | promote and enhance recreational hunting opportunities, to |
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1 | the extent authorized by State law. |
2 | (3) Commission land management decisions and actions may |
3 | not, to the greatest practical extent, result in any net loss |
4 | of habitat available for hunting opportunities on commission- |
5 | owned lands that exists on the effective date of this |
6 | subsection. |
7 | (4) By October 1 of each year, the executive director of |
8 | the commission shall submit to the General Assembly a written |
9 | report describing: |
10 | (i) the acreage owned by the commission that has |
11 | been closed during the previous year to recreational |
12 | hunting and the reasons for the closures; and |
13 | (ii) the acreage owned by the commission that, in |
14 | order to comply with paragraph (3), was opened to |
15 | recreational hunting to compensate for the acreage closed |
16 | under subparagraph (i). |
17 | Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |
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