PRINTER'S NO. 847
No. 779 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY OESTERLING, MELLOW, MESSINGER, HILL AND
DWYER, JUNE 1, 1971
REFERRED TO FORESTS AND WATERS, GAME AND FISH, JUNE 1, 1971
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1225), entitled "An act
2 concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals; and
3 amending, revising, consolidating, and changing the law
4 relating thereto," increasing the maximum purchase price per
5 acre the commission may pay for land exclusive of Federal and
6 other cost-sharing funds.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. The first paragraph of section 903, act of June
10 3, 1937 (P.L.1225), known as "The Game Law," amended May 24,
11 1956 (P.L.1736), is amended to read:
12 Section 903. Purchase Price.--For land to be used as State
13 Game Lands the commission may pay what it considers a fair and
14 reasonable price not exceeding one hundred dollars per acre
15 exclusive of Federal and other cost-sharing funds and consistent
16 with the market value of land in the locality in which any such
17 land may be located.
18 * * *
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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