PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2592 PRINTER'S NO. 4281
No. 420 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY GOOD, S. MILLER, B. SMITH, ARMSTRONG, BEBKO-JONES,
BUNT, CALTAGIRONE, DENLINGER, J. EVANS, HANNA, HARRIS,
HENNESSEY, RAPP, STERN, E. Z. TAYLOR AND CAUSER,
JULY 28, 2005
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
JUNE 19, 2006
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further prohibiting dogs from pursuing, injuring or
3 killing big game.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2382 2383 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania <--
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2383. Dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.
9 [It] (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise set forth in
10 subsection (b), it is unlawful for any person to make use of a
11 dog in any manner to hunt for or to take big game or to permit a
12 dog owned, controlled or harbored by that person to pursue,
13 harass, chase, scatter, injure or kill any big game.
14 (b) Exception.--Subject to ONLY AFTER regulations <--
15 promulgated by the commission, a person who owns, controls or
16 harbors a single dog that is maintained on a leash at all times
17 may use the dog to track big game, excluding turkey, that have
1 been killed or wounded by another person who is engaged in <--
2 lawful hunting of such big game WOUNDED. The person or anyone <--
3 who accompanies the person using the dog to track such big game
4 may not possess a firearm or implement capable of injuring or <--
5 killing such big game ONLY DURING AUTHORIZED HUNTING HOURS AND <--
6 USING ONLY SUCH FIREARM OR IMPLEMENT AS AUTHORIZED BY THE
7 COMMISSION.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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