PRINTER'S NO. 1671
No. 1385 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY DeWEESE, MRKONIC, CLARK, BELFANTI, COLE AND
PISTELLA, JULY 21, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, JULY 21, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for free fishing licenses for totally
3 disabled residents who have served in foreign military
4 engagements.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 2707 of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 2707. Disabled veterans.
10 (a) General rule.--Upon application to the commission or a
11 county treasurer or, in counties where there is no county
12 treasurer by virtue of a home rule charter or optional plan of
13 government, the county official who performs the functions of a
14 county treasurer and who has been designated as an issuing agent
15 by the commission, a free resident fishing license shall be
16 issued to the following if the requirements of section 2701
17 (relating to resident fishing licenses) are met:
18 (1) Any [disabled] veteran:
1 (i) who has a disability incurred in any war or
2 armed conflict which consists of the loss of one or more
3 limbs, [or] the loss of use of one or more limbs[,] or
4 total blindness[,]; or
5 (ii) who is 100% disabled as certified by the United
6 States Veterans' Administration[, and who meets the
7 qualifications of section 2701 (relating to resident
8 fishing licenses), shall be issued a free resident
9 fishing license upon application to the commission or a
10 county treasurer or, in counties where there is no county
11 treasurer by virtue of a home rule charter or optional
12 plan of government, the county official who performs the
13 functions of a county treasurer and who has been
14 designated as an issuing agent by the commission].
15 (2) Any resident:
16 (i) who has served in a foreign military engagement;
17 and
18 (ii) who presents a physician's certificate of total
19 disability.
20 (b) Procedure.--An application under this section shall, in
21 addition to any information required under section 2701, contain
22 a statement that the applicant is a war or armed conflict
23 veteran [and that his disability was service incurred] or has
24 served in a foreign military engagement. The issuing agent or
25 the commission may require the production of the discharge
26 papers of the applicant.
27 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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