PRINTER'S NO. 116
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
135
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY SCAVELLO, RESCHENTHALER, BARTOLOTTA, VULAKOVICH,
FOLMER, WHITE, LAUGHLIN, RAFFERTY AND BREWSTER,
JANUARY 20, 2017
REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, JANUARY 20, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for
dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2383 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 2383. Dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.
(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), it
is unlawful for any person to make use of a dog in any manner to
hunt for or to take big game or to permit a dog owned,
controlled or harbored by that person to pursue, harass, chase,
scatter, injure or make use of a dog to kill any big game.
(b) Exception.--It shall be lawful to [make] do any of the
following:
(1) Make use of a dog to pursue, chase, scatter and
track wild turkeys during the fall wild turkey season.
(2) Make use of a leashed tracking dog to track a white-
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tailed deer , bear or elk in an attempt to recover an animal
which has been legally killed or wounded during any open
season for white-tailed deer , bear or elk.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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