Bill Text: PA HB854 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for nonresidents.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 14-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-28 - Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES [HB854 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB854-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 883
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 854 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY METZGAR, CUTLER, DAY, DENLINGER, GABLER, GEIST, HARHART, KORTZ, MARSHALL, MILLER, MURT, SONNEY, STERN AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 28, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 28, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for nonresidents.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2703 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 2703. Nonresidents.
[For] (a) Requirements.--Except as provided under subsection
(b), for the purpose of this title, any person unable to meet
the requirements of section 2702 (relating to residents) shall
be a nonresident.
(b) Exception.--A nonresident owner of a parcel of farmland
and the owner's spouse, children and children's spouses shall be
considered residents for the purpose of licensing under section
2702 if all of the following apply:
(1) The parcel of farmland is located within this
Commonwealth and a contiguous state.
(2) The owner's, owner's spouse, children or children's
spouses' primary residence is located on the parcel of
farmland which is located in the contiguous state.
(3) The contiguous state extends similar privileges to
residents of this Commonwealth.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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