PRINTER'S NO. 590
No. 547 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY PHILLIPS, STABACK, ALLEN, FAIRCHILD, BELFANTI,
GEIST, GODSHALL, GORDNER, HASAY, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY, HESS,
HORSEY, HUTCHINSON, McCALL, ORIE, SATHER, SAYLOR, SOLOBAY,
STERN, WASHINGTON, WILT, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD, ZIMMERMAN,
ZUG AND M. BAKER, FEBRUARY 7, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 7, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for resident status for hunting
3 or furtaking licenses.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2702(a) of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2702. Residents.
9 (a) General rule.--Any person [who]:
10 (1) who has been domiciled in this Commonwealth for a
11 period of 30 consecutive days preceding the date of
12 application for a license and who establishes identity, age
13 and the fact of bona fide residency to the satisfaction of
14 the commission by production of a motor vehicle driver's
15 license, proof of payment of State or local personal income
16 taxes or some other positive means of identification; or
17 (2) who owns 50 or more contiguous acres of land within
1 this Commonwealth and who meets all of the following
2 requirements:
3 (i) the 50 or more contiguous acres of land are
4 owned by a natural person individually or as tenants by
5 the entirety, or by tenants in common of four or fewer
6 natural persons;
7 (ii) the 50 or more contiguous acres of land are
8 open to public hunting and trapping and shall remain open
9 to hunting and trapping during the hunting license year
10 for which the license is issued; and
11 (iii) the applicant shall furnish proof of ownership
12 of 50 or more contiguous acres of land to the issuing
13 agent,
14 shall for the purpose of this chapter be a resident of this
15 Commonwealth.
16 * * *
17 Section 2. This act shall apply to license years beginning
18 on or after July 1, 2001.
19 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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