AN ACT

 

1Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2Statutes, in enforcement, further providing for liability for
3actions of others.

4The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5hereby enacts as follows:

6Section 1. Section 924 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
7Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

8§ 924. Liability for actions of others.

9(a) General rule.--A person who causes an unlawful act to be
10done by another person which, if directly performed by the
11person causing the unlawful act would be in violation of this
12title, is punishable as a principal.

<-13(b) Exclusion.--

14(1) A landowner who allows or grants permission to
15another person to take game or wildlife on the landowner's 
16property shall not be liable under this section for any
17unlawful acts committed by that person so long as no fee,

1payment or gratuity is paid.

2(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose
3liability on any landowner for allowing or granting
4permission to take game or wildlife on the landowner's
5property so long as no fee, payment or gratuity is paid.

<-6(b) Exclusion.--A landowner who allows or grants permission
7to a person to take game or wildlife on the landowner's property
8shall not be liable under this section for an unlawful act
9committed by that person<-, if all of the following apply:

10(1) No payment or gratuity is required to be paid to the
11landowner.

12(2) The landowner does not willfully aid, abet, assist,
13attempt or conspire in the commission of the unlawful act
<-14unless the landowner willfully aids, abets, assists, attempts
15or conspires in the commission of the unlawful act.

16Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.