PRINTER'S NO.  1974

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

1403

Session of

2012

  

  

INTRODUCED BY ALLOWAY, BAKER, GORDNER, FONTANA, M. WHITE, McILHINNEY, RAFFERTY, ORIE, D. WHITE, KASUNIC, WAUGH, SOLOBAY, SCHWANK, BRUBAKER, FERLO, WOZNIAK AND BROWNE, MARCH 2, 2012

  

  

REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 2, 2012  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes, further providing for liability for actions of

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others.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 924 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

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§ 924.  Liability for actions of others.

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(a)  General rule.--A person who causes an unlawful act to be

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done by another person which, if directly performed by the

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person causing the unlawful act would be in violation of this

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title, is punishable as a principal.

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(b)  Exclusion.--This section shall not be construed in any

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way to impose liability on any landowner for allowing or

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granting permission to take game or wildlife on the landowner's

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property so long as no fee, payment or gratuity is paid. A

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landowner who allows or grants permission to another to take

 


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game or wildlife shall not be liable under this section for any

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unlawful acts committed by that person so long as no fee,

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payment or gratuity is paid.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

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