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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | February 13, 2013 11:14 AM |
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| From: | Senator Richard L. Alloway, II |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Amending Game and Wildlife Code (Title 34) to ensure landowners allowing hunting on their property are not subject to prosecution for Code violations committed by the hunters whom the landowner has allowed to hunt. |
| In the near future, I will be introducing legislation (SB 1403 of last session) to amend the Game and Wildlife Code (Title 34) to ensure landowners allowing hunting on their property are not subject to prosecution for Code violations committed by the hunters whom the landowner has allowed to hunt. Section 924 of the Code provides that a person “who causes” another to act in violation of the Code is also culpable for any Code violation that the actor committees. This section has been cited as the legal basis in attempts to hold land owners who merely allowed hunting on the landowner’s property legally responsible for violations actually committed by the hunters. My legislation would amend Section 924 to expressly recognize landowners’ gracious decision to allow hunting on their property does not place the landowner at risk of legal responsibility for Game and Wildlife Code violations which those authorized hunters have committed. |
Introduced as SB648