Bill Text: PA HB578 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defining "wildlife management unit"; and further providing for resident license and fee exemptions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 18-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-23 - Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES [HB578 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB578-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 626
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 578 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY REED, BOYD, CREIGHTON, EVERETT, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GEORGE, GRELL, M. KELLER, MILLER, PICKETT, PYLE, REICHLEY, ROHRER, SCAVELLO, SONNEY AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 23, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 23, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, defining "wildlife management unit"; and further
providing for resident license and fee exemptions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 102 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:
§ 102. Definitions.
Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent
provisions of this title which are applicable to specific
provisions of this title, the following words and phrases when
used in this title shall have the meanings given to them in this
section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
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"Wildlife management unit." One of the 22 areas in this
Commonwealth designated by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in
which hunting and furtaking may occur and licenses may be sold.
Section 2. Section 2706(c) of Title 34 is amended to read:
§ 2706. Resident license and fee exemptions.
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(c) Landowner antlerless deer license.--Eligible landowners
who own 50 or more contiguous acres of land within any [county]
wildlife management unit where the landowners desire to hunt
antlerless deer shall be entitled to obtain one antlerless deer
license for that [county] wildlife management unit, at the
prescribed fee, issued to one and only one person whose name
appears on the deed. These antlerless deer licenses shall be
allocated in advance of their availability to the general public
from the quota established by the commission for the county
where the land is situated to landowners who meet all of the
following requirements:
(1) The 50 or more contiguous acres of land are owned by
a natural person individually or as tenants by the entirety,
or by a corporation of four or fewer shareholders, or by
tenants in common of four or fewer natural persons.
(2) The 50 or more contiguous acres of land are open to
public hunting and trapping and shall remain open to hunting
and trapping during the hunting license year for which the
antlerless deer license is issued.
(3) The applicant for an antlerless deer license shall
furnish proof of ownership of 50 or more contiguous acres of
land to the [county treasurer within the county where the
land is situated] commission.
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Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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