PRINTER'S NO. 3595
No. 2721 Session of 1980
INTRODUCED BY GOEBEL, KNIGHT, SEVENTY AND TRELLO, JUNE 16, 1980
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, JUNE 16, 1980
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1225, No.316), entitled
2 "An act concerning game and other wild birds and wild
3 animals; and amending, revising, consolidating, and changing
4 the law relating thereto," prohibiting the taking of bear
5 less than one year old.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 502, act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1225,
9 No.316), known as "The Game Law," amended March 23, 1970
10 (P.L.200, No.79) and December 10, 1974 (P.L.811, No.269), is
11 amended to read:
12 Section 502. Bag Limits.--(a) It is unlawful for any person
13 to kill or attempt to kill in any one day or in any one season,
14 or have in possession at any one time, unless otherwise provided
15 in this act more game birds or game animals than fixed by
16 resolution of the commission.
17 Except as otherwise provided by regulations of the commission
18 and the provisions of subsection (e) of section 501 of this act,
19 every deer taken shall be a male deer having two or more points
1 to one antler. [, and] Without exception, every bear taken shall
2 be not less than one year old.
3 If in any year the commission fails to establish the bag or
4 possession limits for game birds or game animals they shall be
5 the same as those fixed by resolution of the commission for the
6 previous year.
7 (b) Any person who kills a wild turkey, bear or deer, which
8 upon presentation to a district game protector is shown to his
9 satisfaction to be unfit for human consumption when it was
10 killed, shall have the right to kill another animal of the same
11 species then in season, and the district game protector shall
12 authorize such person, in writing, to kill a second wild turkey,
13 bear or deer as provided above. All parts of said unfit game
14 shall be turned over to the district game protector intact,
15 except for the removal of the entrails which is a normal field
16 procedure.
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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