PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 690, 1808 PRINTER'S NO. 1914
No. 647 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY HELFRICK, HESS, WENGER, STAPLETON, REGOLI,
SALVATORE, SHAFFER, MADIGAN AND RHOADES, MARCH 6, 1989
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, FEBRUARY 12, 1990
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for the issuance of reduced fee hunting
3 licenses to certain parties who open land to public hunting.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2706 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 2706. Resident license and fee exemptions.
9 * * *
10 (d) Owners or possessors of land open to public hunting.--A
11 resident owner or possessor of land, comprising greater than 80
12 contiguous acres farmed under a conservation plan which does not
13 conflict with the act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), known
14 as The Clean Streams Law, and which meets the requirements of 25
15 Pa. Code Ch. 102 (relating to erosion control), shall, if he
16 permits public hunting as evidenced by enrollment in a
17 Cooperative Public Access Program, be entitled to purchase a
18 Landowners Hunting License at the cost of $3 plus the current
1 issuing fee. The 80-acre requirement shall be exclusive of
2 safety zones in excess of 20% of the total acreage. The license
3 shall be issued to the owner or possessor or an immediate family
4 member of either the owner or possessor living in the same
5 household so designated by the owner or possessor in the case of
6 a single owner or possessor, and to the individual so designated
7 in the case of more than one owner or possessor. No person shall
8 be issued a hunting license under this subsection unless the
9 person is 12 years of age or older, has met the requirements
10 prescribed in section 2704 (relating to eligibility for license)
11 and has not been denied the privilege to hunt. A person entitled
12 to receive a hunting license under this subsection shall certify
13 to the commission in the form and manner prescribed by the
14 commission that the land tract he owns or possesses is presently
15 in his ownership or possession.
16 Section 2. Section 2709(a) of Title 34 is amended by adding
17 a paragraph to read:
18 § 2709. License costs and fees.
19 (a) License costs.--Any person who qualifies under the
20 provisions of this chapter shall be issued the applicable
21 license upon payment of the following costs and the issuing
22 agent's fee:
23 * * *
24 (19) Owners or possessors of land open to public hunting
25 under section 2706(d) (relating to owners or possessors of
26 land open to public hunting) - $3.
27 * * *
28 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 1989 1990, or <--
29 immediately, whichever is later.
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