PRINTER'S NO. 211
No. 188 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY LESCOVITZ, ROBERTS, TIGUE, TRELLO, CORRIGAN,
HERSHEY, TRAVAGLIO AND LAUGHLIN, FEBRUARY 4, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 4, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for killing game or wildlife to
3 protect property.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2121(c) of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2121. Killing game or wildlife to protect property.
9 * * *
10 (c) Definition.--As used in this subchapter, the word
11 "person" shall be limited to any person cultivating, as a
12 primary means of gaining a livelihood, any lands for general or
13 specialized crop purposes, truck farming or fruit orchard or
14 nursery being regularly maintained, as either the owner, lessee
15 or a member of the family of the owner or lessee assisting with
16 the cultivation of the land, or a domiciled member of the
17 household of the owner or lessee or an employee of the owner or
18 lessee, regularly and continuously assisting in the cultivation
1 of the land, or, if a qualified person is unwilling or unable to
2 remove the game animal, then a person retained by the qualified
3 person shall have the right to remove the game animal.
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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