PRINTER'S NO. 782

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 718 Session of 1993


        INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, DeWEESE, ARGALL, SURRA, HENNESSEY,
           NAILOR, BAKER, CESSAR, BUSH, COY, ARMSTRONG, FAIRCHILD,
           GEIST, CORRIGAN, DEMPSEY, KAISER, OLASZ, PESCI, LEVDANSKY,
           McCALL, CORNELL, STAIRS, TRELLO, BELFANTI, LESCOVITZ,
           PRESTON, E. Z. TAYLOR, CLARK, KING, PETTIT, RITTER, CLYMER,
           LEE, ROONEY, ADOLPH, SEMMEL, HESS, GERLACH AND PETRARCA,
           MARCH 22, 1993

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 22, 1993

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     2     Statutes, further providing for disabled person permits.

     3     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     4  hereby enacts as follows:
     5     Section 1.  Section 2923(c) of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
     6  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     7  § 2923.  Disabled person permits.
     8     * * *
     9     (c)  Bow and arrow or crossbow.--
    10         [(1)]  A permit [may] shall be issued to any [disabled]
    11     person who presents a doctor's certificate showing that the
    12     person is [suffering from], because of a permanent [paralysis
    13     of one arm or who has suffered amputation of one arm]
    14     physical condition, unable to hunt with a conventional bow
    15     and arrow, authorizing that person to hunt by the use of:


     1         [(i)] (1)  A bow and arrow which is held in place by a
     2     brace secured around the body of the hunter or is triggered
     3     with the aid of a mechanical device.
     4         [(ii)] (2)  A crossbow.
     5         [(2)  The bow and arrow, crossbow or other device must be
     6     approved by the director.]
     7     * * *
     8     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.















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