PRINTER'S NO. 2751
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2139
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY WARREN, MARCH 19, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 19, 2024
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in riot, disorderly conduct and
related offenses, providing for the offense of use of live
pigeons for target.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 5545.1. Use of live pigeons for target.
(a) Offense defined.--A person commits a summary offense if
the person willfully organizes, operates, conducts or knowingly
permits a premises to be owned, leased or used for a contest
event in which live pigeons are used as targets for either
amusement or as a test of skill in marksmanship that are
launched or otherwise immediately presented to the shooter
either manually or with electronic or mechanical assistance from
a fixed location or locations within a predefined shooting
field.
(b) Applicability.--Nothing under this section shall be
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construed to apply to activity which is authorized or permitted
under 34 Pa.C.S. (relating to game), the training of dogs for
activity which is authorized or permitted under 34 Pa.C.S. or a
special permit under 58 Pa. Code Ch. 147 (relating to special
permits).
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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