Bill Text: PA HB281 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: In hunting and furtaking, further providing for unlawful acts concerning licenses; and, in special licenses and permits, further providing for authority to issue permits, for permit fees and for falconry permits.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-10-12 - Laid on the table [HB281 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB281-Amended.html

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SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 269, 1536 PRINTER'S NO. 4268
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 281 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY DALEY, STABACK, MOUL, BOYD, BRENNAN, CONKLIN, GIBBONS, GOODMAN, GROVE, HALUSKA, HARHAI, HESS, HORNAMAN, KIRKLAND, KORTZ, LENTZ, MAHONEY, MENSCH, METZGAR, PEIFER, PYLE, ROHRER, SIPTROTH, WALKO, WHITE, CUTLER, D. COSTA, ROCK, HARRIS, CREIGHTON, GEIST, K. SMITH, HELM, CALTAGIRONE, KRIEGER, EVERETT AND DENLINGER, FEBRUARY 4, 2009
SENATOR CORMAN, APPROPRIATIONS, IN SENATE, RE-REPORTED AS AMENDED, SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
AN ACT
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for
unlawful acts concerning licenses; and, in special licenses <--
and permits, further providing for authority to issue
permits, for permit fees and for falconry permits.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2711 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 2711. Unlawful acts concerning licenses.
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(a.1) Exception.--For the sole purpose of implementing and
enhancing a mentor mentored youth hunting program within this <--
Commonwealth, the commission may establish regulations exempting
certain limited youth hunting activities from the prohibitions
specified in subsection (a)(1), (3), (5) and (8). Such exemption <--
shall include a provision limiting a mentored youth
participating in a mentored youth hunting program to the receipt
of no more than one antlerless deer license in each license
year.
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Section 2. Sections 2901(e), 2904(a)(7) and 2925(a) and (b) <--
of Title 34 are amended to read:
§ 2901. Authority to issue permits.
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(e) Falconry permits.--Notwithstanding the provisions of
subsection (a), falconry permits may be issued only to persons
who are residents of this Commonwealth and [16] 12 years of age
or older.
§ 2904. Permit fees.
(a) Annual fees.--The annual fee for permits provided for in
this chapter shall be as follows:
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(7) Falconry - [$25 for each raptor held] $50.
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§ 2925. Falconry permits.
(a) Powers of commission.--The commission may adopt
regulations [consistent with Federal fish and wildlife laws and
regulations concerning the sport of falconry] to define,
implement and provide for the issuance of falconry permits to
eligible persons within this Commonwealth.
(b) Unlawful acts.--It is unlawful [to practice any of the
actions defined as falconry under this section without a
falconry permit or to violate any regulation of the commission
or the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, whose
regulations pertaining to falconry are hereby made a part of
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this title] for any person to engage in any falconry activities
without a valid falconry permit or to violate any regulation of
the commission relating to falconry.
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Section 2 3. This act shall take effect immediately. <--
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