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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY PYLE, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, ELLIS, GROVE, HANNA, MOUL, PEIFER, READSHAW, SEIP, SIPTROTH, SWANGER AND VULAKOVICH, MAY 19, 2010 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MAY 19, 2010 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated |
2 | Statutes, further providing for dogs pursuing, injuring or |
3 | killing big game. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 2383 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania |
7 | Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: |
8 | § 2383. Dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game. |
9 | (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), it |
10 | is unlawful for any person to make use of a dog in any manner to |
11 | hunt for or to take big game or to permit a dog owned, |
12 | controlled or harbored by that person to pursue, harass, chase, |
13 | scatter, injure or make use of a dog to kill any big game. |
14 | (b) Exception.--It shall be lawful to make use of a dog to |
15 | pursue, chase, scatter and track wild turkeys during the fall |
16 | wild turkey season or to make use of a leashed blood-tracking |
17 | dog to track a white-tailed deer in an attempt to recover an |
18 | animal which has been legally killed or wounded during any open |
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1 | season for white-tailed deer. |
2 | Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |
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