PRINTER'S NO. 1230
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1060
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY STURLA, WARREN, O'BRIEN, THOMAS AND DONATUCCI,
APRIL 3, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
APRIL 3, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), entitled,
as amended, "An act to preserve and improve the purity of the
waters of the Commonwealth for the protection of public
health, animal and aquatic life, and for industrial
consumption, and recreation; empowering and directing the
creation of indebtedness or the issuing of non-debt revenue
bonds by political subdivisions to provide works to abate
pollution; providing protection of water supply and water
quality; providing for the jurisdiction of courts in the
enforcement thereof; providing additional remedies for
abating pollution of waters; imposing certain penalties;
repealing certain acts; regulating discharges of sewage and
industrial wastes; regulating the operation of mines and
regulating the impact of mining upon water quality, supply
and quantity; placing responsibilities upon landowners and
land occupiers and to maintain primary jurisdiction over
surface coal mining in Pennsylvania," in scope and purpose,
repealing provisions relating to fences along streams.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 702 of the act of June 22, 1937
(P.L.1987, No.394), known as The Clean Streams Law, is repealed:
[Section 702. Fences along Streams.--No administrative
agency of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof
shall require any person to erect a fence along a stream in a
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pasture or other field used for grazing of farm livestock for
the purpose of keeping farm livestock out of the stream.]
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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