PRINTER'S NO. 659
No. 603 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY B. SMITH, RYAN, ARGALL AND MARKOSEK,
FEBRUARY 8, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 8, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, increasing the penalty for safety zone violations.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 2505 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
7 § 2505. Safety zones.
8 (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in this
9 title or to any political subdivision, its employees or agents,
10 which has a valid deer control permit issued under section
11 2902(c) (relating to general categories of permits), it is
12 unlawful for any person, other than the lawful occupant, while
13 hunting game or wildlife, taking furbearers of any kind, or
14 pursuing any other privilege granted by this title, to hunt for,
15 take, trap, pursue, disturb or otherwise chase any game or
16 wildlife or to discharge, for any reason, any firearm, arrow or
17 other deadly weapon within or through a safety zone, or to shoot
18 at any game or wildlife while it is within the safety zone
1 without the specific advance permission of the lawful occupant
2 thereof. Any person found within a safety zone shall, upon
3 request of the property owner or other occupant of the property,
4 furnish to that person:
5 (1) name;
6 (2) address; and
7 (3) the license number of any hunting or furtaking
8 license.
9 (b) Penalty.--A violation of this section is a summary
10 offense of the [fourth degree.] second degree subject to the
11 imposition of a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $500.
12 For a second or subsequent offense under this section, the
13 monetary penalty shall be doubled and the offender, upon
14 conviction, shall have a license suspension of not less than
15 three nor more than five years imposed by the commission.
16 (c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "safety
17 zone" means:
18 (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), the
19 area within 150 yards around and that area which is below the
20 highest point of any occupied dwelling house, residence, or
21 other building or camp occupied by human beings, or any barn,
22 stable, or other building used in connection therewith or any
23 attached or detached playground of any school, nursery school
24 or day-care center even if the 150-yard area extends onto the
25 lands of adjacent property owners.
26 (2) When applied to properly licensed archery deer
27 hunters within any special area designated by commission
28 regulations or any area making use of any special permit
29 issued in accordance with this title or commission
30 regulations, the area within 50 yards around and that area
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1 which is below the highest point of any occupied dwelling
2 house, residence or other building or camp occupied by human
3 beings or any barn, stable or other building used in
4 connection therewith and the area within 150 yards around and
5 that area which is below the highest point of any attached or
6 detached playground of any school, nursery school or day-care
7 center even if the area extends onto the lands of adjacent
8 property owners.
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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