Bill Text: PA HB2529 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing that hunting and trapping are property rights.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-28 - Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES [HB2529 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2529-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3870
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2529 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY PETRARCA, JUNE 28, 2012
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, JUNE 28, 2012
AN ACT
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, providing that hunting and trapping are property
rights.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 103 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 103. Ownership, jurisdiction [and], control of game and
wildlife and property rights.
(a) General rule.--The ownership, jurisdiction over and
control of game or wildlife is vested in the commission as an
independent agency of the Commonwealth in its sovereign capacity
to be controlled, regulated and disposed of in accordance with
this title.
(b) Method of management.--The commission shall utilize
hunting and trapping as methods of effecting necessary
management of game, furbearer and wildlife populations.
(c) Property rights.--Hunting and trapping are property
rights which cannot be taken away without the benefit of due
process of law.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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