PRINTER'S NO. 2180
No. 1733 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY CAPUTO AND WARGO, SEPTEMBER 23, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE, SEPTEMBER 23, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the carrying of
3 certain registrations and licenses.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 6106 of Title 18, act
7 of November 25, 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the
8 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, added December 6, 1972
9 (P.L.1482, No.334) and amended October 12, 1973 (P.L.283,
10 No.81), is amended to read:
11 § 6106. Firearms not to be carried without a license.
12 * * *
13 (c) Registration required in connection with field or stream
14 exemptions.--Before any exception shall be granted under
15 paragraph (b)(9) or (10) of this section to any person licensed
16 to hunt, trap or fish or who desires to train dogs, such person
17 shall at the time of securing his hunting or fishing license or
18 any time after such license has been issued, register with the
19 county treasurer the make of the firearm he desires to carry,
1 and the caliber and number thereof, on a blank to be furnished
2 by the Pennsylvania State Police. The original registration
3 shall be delivered to the person registering such firearm, and a
4 copy thereof shall be forwarded by the county treasurer to the
5 Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police. As of January 1,
6 1972, the county treasurer shall be entitled to collect a fee of
7 50 cents for each such registration of a firearm which fee shall
8 be paid to the county. The registration of a firearm, as
9 provided in this subsection, shall be good only for the year for
10 which the hunting or fishing license in connection with which it
11 is granted, is issued. Any registration issued under the
12 provisions of this subsection shall be carried by the recipient
13 of such registration at all times when said individual has the
14 firearm registered in possession.
15 * * *
16 Section 2. Subsection (a) of section 6109 of the act is
17 amended to read:
18 § 6109. Licenses.
19 (a) Issue of license.--The chief or head of any police force
20 or police department of a city, and, elsewhere, the sheriff of a
21 county, may, upon the application of any person, issue a license
22 to such person to carry a firearm in a vehicle or concealed on
23 or about his person within this Commonwealth for not more than
24 one year from date of issue, if it appears that the applicant
25 has good reason to fear an injury to his person or property, or
26 has any other proper reason for carrying a firearm, and that he
27 is a suitable person to be so licensed. Any license issued under
28 the provisions of this section shall be carried by the licensee
29 at all times when the individual has the firearm in possession.
30 each be paid?
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1 Are there any other contracts similar to that signed by the
2 Governor's office of administration and the Welfare Rights
3 Organization now in existence?
4 If so, how many, what does each do, and at what cost to the
5 Pennsylvania taxpayer?
6 What other grandiose plans does the Governor have to spend
7 the rest of his $2,400,000 allotment on the eve of a
8 Presidential election year and for whose benefit?; and be it
9 further
10 RESOLVED, That the committee may hold hearings, take
11 testimony, and make its investigations at such places as it
12 deems necessary. It may issue subpoenas under the hand and seal
13 of its chairman commanding any person to appear before it and to
14 answer questions touching matters properly being inquired into
15 by the committee and to produce such books, papers, records and
16 documents as the committee deems necessary. Such subpoenas may
17 be served upon any person and shall have the force and effect of
18 subpoenas issued out of the courts of this Commonwealth. Any
19 person who wilfully neglects or refuses to testify before the
20 committee or to produce any books, papers, records or documents,
21 shall be subject to the penalties provided by the laws of the
22 Commonwealth in such case. Each member of the committee shall
23 have power to administer oaths and affirmations to witnesses
24 appearing before the committee; and be it further
25 RESOLVED, That within 30 calendar days after the committee
26 has made its report the chairman of the committee shall cause a
27 record of all expenses incurred by the committee, or the members
28 thereof, which are payable at Commonwealth expense, to be filed
29 with the Speaker of the House and the Speaker shall cause the
30 same to be entered in the journal thereof. No expenses incurred
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1 by the committee or any member thereof shall be reimbursable by
2 the Chief Clerk unless such expense shall first have been
3 included as an expense item in the record heretofore required;
4 and be it further
5 RESOLVED, That the committee report its findings and proposed
6 legislation, if such be necessary, to the General Assembly as
7 soon as possible.
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