PRINTER'S NO. 2571
No. 1987 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY SEYFERT, FARGO, BELARDI, HUTCHINSON, JAROLIN,
YOUNGBLOOD, TRELLO, DeLUCA, WOJNAROSKI, WALKO AND PISTELLA,
NOVEMBER 18, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, NOVEMBER 18, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for the organization of the
3 Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 301(a) and (b) of Title 30 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 301. Organization of commission.
9 (a) Composition.--The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
10 is continued as an independent administrative commission and
11 shall consist of [ten] eleven competent citizens of this
12 Commonwealth who shall be appointed by the Governor by and with
13 the advice and consent of two-thirds of the members elected to
14 the Senate for terms of eight years and until their successors
15 are appointed and qualified.
16 (b) Qualifications.--Two members of the commission shall
17 serve at-large and be experienced in boating and water safety
18 education and be a registered boat owner in Pennsylvania. The
1 two boatmen members shall represent the various geographical
2 sections and boating interests of this Commonwealth. One member
3 shall represent Lake Erie. The member representing Lake Erie
4 shall be a person well-informed on the subject of Lake Erie as
5 well as conservation, restoration, fish and fishing and boats
6 and boating. The remaining eight members shall be persons well
7 informed on the subject of conservation, restoration, fish and
8 fishing and boats and boating and shall be appointed, insofar as
9 practicable, on a bipartisan basis and from the various
10 geographic districts of this Commonwealth so that at all times
11 one and only one member of the eight remaining members shall be
12 a resident of each of the following districts:
13 (1) First district, consisting of the counties of Erie,
14 Crawford, Mercer, Lawrence, Venango, Butler, Warren, Forest
15 and Clarion.
16 (2) Second district, consisting of the counties of
17 Beaver, Allegheny, Washington, Greene, Armstrong, Indiana,
18 Westmoreland and Fayette.
19 (3) Third district, consisting of the counties of
20 McKean, Elk, Jefferson, Potter, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton
21 and Centre.
22 (4) Fourth district, consisting of the counties of
23 Cambria, Somerset, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Fulton,
24 Mifflin and Juniata.
25 (5) Fifth district, consisting of the counties of Tioga,
26 Lycoming, Union, Snyder, Bradford, Sullivan, Columbia,
27 Montour and Northumberland.
28 (6) Sixth district, consisting of the counties of
29 Franklin, Perry, Cumberland, Adams, Dauphin, York, Lebanon
30 and Lancaster.
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1 (7) Seventh district, consisting of the counties of
2 Susquehanna, Wyoming, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Carbon, Wayne,
3 Pike and Monroe.
4 (8) Eighth district, consisting of the counties of
5 Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks,
6 Montgomery, Philadelphia and Delaware.
7 * * *
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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