PRINTER'S NO. 59
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
68
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, KOTIK, MALONEY, MULLERY, D. COSTA,
EVERETT AND LAWRENCE, JANUARY 21, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, JANUARY 21, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in property and buildings, further providing for
use of property relating to recreational hunting.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 722 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
ยง 722. Use of property.
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(d) Recreational hunting.--
(1) Subject to valid existing rights, commission-owned
lands shall be open to access and use for recreational
hunting except as limited by the commission for reasons of
public safety, fish or wildlife management, or homeland
security or as otherwise limited by law.
(2) The commission shall exercise its authority,
consistent with paragraph (1), in a manner to support,
promote and enhance recreational hunting opportunities, to
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the extent authorized by State law.
(3) Commission land management decisions and actions may
not, to the greatest practical extent, result in any net loss
of habitat available for hunting opportunities on commission-
owned lands that exists on the effective date of this
subsection.
(4) By October 1 of each year, the executive director of
the commission shall submit to the General Assembly a written
report describing:
(i) the acreage owned by the commission that has
been closed during the previous year to recreational
hunting and the reasons for the closures; and
(ii) the acreage owned by the commission that, in
order to comply with paragraph (3), was opened to
recreational hunting to compensate for the acreage closed
under subparagraph (i).
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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