PRINTER'S NO. 2644
No. 2032 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY S. H. SMITH, SEMMEL, DeWEESE, BAKER, BELARDI,
JAROLIN, DALEY, MASLAND, KAISER, ROONEY, OLASZ, M. COHEN,
MILLER, GODSHALL, FICHTER, ORIE, ROSS, SAYLOR, STABACK,
ADOLPH, WILT, GEIST, LAUGHLIN, LEVDANSKY, READSHAW, BELFANTI,
BENNINGHOFF, PESCI, LYNCH, HERMAN, TRELLO, HESS, CURRY,
DeLUCA, CASORIO, ITKIN, E. Z. TAYLOR, COLAFELLA, MICOZZIE,
BUNT, TIGUE, MELIO, MAJOR, PETRARCA, McNAUGHTON AND
YOUNGBLOOD, NOVEMBER 25, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, NOVEMBER 25, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, expanding the eligibility for an institutional
3 license.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2708 of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2708. Institutional licenses.
9 Any resident of this Commonwealth who is a resident in a
10 community mental health or mental retardation residential
11 facility or supported through a county mental health and mental
12 retardation program or who is a resident patient in a
13 Commonwealth owned and supported institution for mental
14 disability, geriatric center, tubercular hospital or county home
15 or hospital, or any veteran who is a patient in a United States
1 Government Veterans' Administration Hospital or in a State
2 veterans' home, or who is a juvenile of a State youth
3 development center or forestry camp, and who may benefit from
4 recreational fishing during the course of treatment,
5 rehabilitation or hospitalization may be issued a resident
6 fishing license without paying a license fee. Licenses
7 authorized by this section may be issued by the superintendent
8 or chief medical officer of the institution or the administrator
9 of the county mental health and mental retardation program who
10 shall sign an affidavit certifying that recreational fishing may
11 be of benefit to the rehabilitation of the patient and that the
12 patient is a consumer of a county mental health and mental
13 retardation residential service or is an inpatient of the
14 institution. The affidavits, and records of the number and to
15 whom the licenses were issued, shall be forwarded to the
16 commission on such forms as the commission shall provide. The
17 commission may revoke license issuing privileges of any
18 institution for failure to comply with any provisions of this
19 chapter or regulations promulgated thereunder.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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