PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 663 PRINTER'S NO. 948
No. 595 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY W. W. FOSTER, LETTERMAN, NOYE, BOWSER, MERRY,
VROON AND PETRONE, MARCH 23, 1983
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED APRIL 25, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, increasing certain fees.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Sections 2701, 2702, 2704 and 2711(b) of Title 30
6 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
7 § 2701. Resident fishing licenses.
8 (a) General rule.--For the purposes of this chapter any
9 person 16 years of age or older is entitled to a "Resident
10 Fishing License" if:
11 (1) He has applied to an issuing agent within this
12 Commonwealth or to the commission.
13 (2) He has established his identity, age and the fact
14 that he is a bona fide resident of this Commonwealth to the
15 satisfaction of the issuing agent or the commission by
16 producing a motor vehicle driver's license or some other
17 positive means of identification.
1 (3) He has paid the issuing agent or the commission a
2 license fee of $12 plus a service fee of [25¢] 50¢ to the
3 issuing agent.
4 (b) Senior citizens.--A person 65 years of age or older at
5 the time of application who complies with subsection (a)(1) and
6 (2) is entitled to a "Senior Resident Fishing License" if he
7 pays a license fee of $2 to the issuing agent or the commission
8 plus a service fee of [25¢] 50¢ to the issuing agent. The
9 application shall give the date of birth of the applicant. Any
10 person who qualifies to purchase a Senior Resident Fishing
11 License may, in lieu thereof, purchase a Senior Resident Fishing
12 License which shall be valid for his lifetime upon the payment
13 of a fee of $10 for the use of the Commonwealth and, in the
14 event the license is issued by an issuing agent, a fee of [25¢]
15 50¢ for the use of the issuing agent.
16 § 2702. Nonresident and tourist licenses.
17 (a) Nonresident licenses.--For the purposes of this chapter
18 any person 16 years of age or older is entitled to a
19 "Nonresident Fishing License" if:
20 (1) He is not a bona fide resident of this Commonwealth.
21 (2) He has applied to an issuing agent or to the
22 commission.
23 (3) He has paid the issuing agent or the commission a
24 license fee of $20 plus a service fee of [25¢] 50¢ to the
25 issuing agent.
26 (b) Tourist licenses.--For the purposes of this chapter any
27 person 16 years of age or older is entitled to a "Seven Day
28 Tourist Fishing License," valid for a period of seven
29 consecutive days, if:
30 (1) He is not a bona fide resident of this Commonwealth.
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1 (2) He has applied to an issuing agent or to the
2 commission.
3 (3) He has paid the issuing agent or the commission a
4 license fee of $15 plus a service charge of [25¢] 50¢ to the
5 issuing agent.
6 § 2704. Lost fishing licenses.
7 In case a license certificate is lost or destroyed, a new
8 license may be secured from the commission or any issuing agent
9 upon making affidavit to that effect and paying a fee of $1 plus
10 a service fee of [25¢] 50¢ to the issuing agent.
11 § 2711. Issuing agents.
12 * * *
13 (b) Compensation and fees.--For services rendered in
14 collecting and paying over license fees, issuing agents, as long
15 as they continue to act in that capacity, may collect and retain
16 the sum of [25¢] 50¢ for each fishing license sold which amount
17 shall be full compensation for services rendered by them under
18 the provisions of this title. The compensation shall be retained
19 by the respective issuing agents and shall cover, among other
20 things, the cost of issuing licenses, postage, mailing, returns
21 and bonding of said agents. All license fees paid to an issuing
22 agent under this title shall be paid by those agents into the
23 State Treasury through the commission at least once a month and
24 they shall be applied to the purposes provided for in this
25 title. An issuing agent shall make a return to the commission
26 upon a form to be supplied by the commission. Any issuing agent
27 failing to comply with any of the provisions of this section
28 shall not be entitled to retain the fee fixed in this subsection
29 for his services but shall pay those fees to the State
30 Treasurer. If those sums are not so paid, the Commonwealth may
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1 recover them by suit in the same manner as like amounts are now
2 recoverable by law.
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4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. JANUARY 1, <--
5 1984.
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