PRINTER'S NO. 1322
No. 1169 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY SEYFERT, WOJNAROSKI, SCRIMENTI, STABACK, PRESTON,
BOYES, BEBKO-JONES, McILHATTAN, YOUNGBLOOD, MARKOSEK, STERN,
HUTCHINSON, CORRIGAN, M. COHEN AND E. Z. TAYLOR,
APRIL 7, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, APRIL 7, 1999
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
1 education and be a registered boat owner in Pennsylvania. The
2 two boatmen members shall represent the various geographical
3 sections and boating interests of this Commonwealth. One member
4 shall represent Lake Erie. The member representing Lake Erie
5 shall be a person well-informed on the subject of Lake Erie as
6 well as conservation, restoration, fish and fishing and boats
7 and boating. The remaining eight members shall be persons well
8 informed on the subject of conservation, restoration, fish and
9 fishing and boats and boating and shall be appointed, insofar as
10 practicable, on a bipartisan basis and from the various
11 geographic districts of this Commonwealth so that at all times
12 one and only one member of the eight remaining members shall be
13 a resident of each of the following districts:
14 (1) First district, consisting of the counties of Erie,
15 Crawford, Mercer, Lawrence, Venango, Butler, Warren, Forest
16 and Clarion.
17 (2) Second district, consisting of the counties of
18 Beaver, Allegheny, Washington, Greene, Armstrong, Indiana,
19 Westmoreland and Fayette.
20 (3) Third district, consisting of the counties of
21 McKean, Elk, Jefferson, Potter, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton
22 and Centre.
23 (4) Fourth district, consisting of the counties of
24 Cambria, Somerset, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Fulton,
25 Mifflin and Juniata.
26 (5) Fifth district, consisting of the counties of Tioga,
27 Lycoming, Union, Snyder, Bradford, Sullivan, Columbia,
28 Montour and Northumberland.
29 (6) Sixth district, consisting of the counties of
30 Franklin, Perry, Cumberland, Adams, Dauphin, York, Lebanon
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1 and Lancaster.
2 (7) Seventh district, consisting of the counties of
3 Susquehanna, Wyoming, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Carbon, Wayne,
4 Pike and Monroe.
5 (8) Eighth district, consisting of the counties of
6 Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks,
7 Montgomery, Philadelphia and Delaware.
8 * * *
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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