PRINTER'S NO. 734
No. 670 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY JAROLIN, PESCI, BROWN, TRELLO, GODSHALL, KING,
LAUGHLIN, WOZNIAK, STISH AND GIGLIOTTI, MARCH 22, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 22, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, removing the requirement that the fishing license
3 be displayed.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2703 of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2703. Possession [and display] of licenses.
9 (a) General rule.--No person shall fish in any of the waters
10 of this Commonwealth or in any boundary waters without first
11 procuring the proper license required by this chapter. The
12 license shall be kept about the person while fishing and shown
13 upon the request of any waterways patrolman or other officer
14 designated by the commission. In addition to showing the license
15 to the officer, the holder thereof shall, upon demand, establish
16 his further identity to the satisfaction of the officer by
17 producing some other positive means of identification. [The
18 commission may promulgate rules and regulations for the
1 displaying of the license certificate, license button or other
2 device, as it deems necessary.]
3 (b) Penalties.--
4 [(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any] Any
5 person who violates this section commits a summary offense of
6 the third degree.
7 [(2) Any person who violates any regulation concerning
8 the displaying of the license certificate, button or other
9 device promulgated under this section commits a summary
10 offense of the fourth degree.]
11 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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