PRINTER'S NO. 682
No. 617 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY LEVDANSKY, GODSHALL, CAPPABIANCA, NOYE, PESCI,
HECKLER, KUKOVICH, BUNT, DALEY, KRUSZEWSKI, BILLOW, SALOOM,
STABACK, PISTELLA, MICHLOVIC AND E. Z. TAYLOR, MARCH 12, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 12, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," providing for the
21 establishment and operation of a Sportsmen Advisory Council
22 to advise the Pennsylvania Fish Commission and the
23 Pennsylvania Game Commission.
24 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25 hereby enacts as follows:
26 Section 1. The introductory paragraph of section 448 of the
27 act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The
28 Administrative Code of 1929, amended June 6, 1945 (P.L.1398,
1 No.446), is amended and the section is amended by adding a
2 clause to read:
3 Section 448. Advisory Boards and Commissions.--The advisory
4 boards and commissions, within the several administrative
5 departments and independent commissions, shall be constituted as
6 follows:
7 * * *
8 (q) (1) The Sportsmen Advisory Council shall consist of the
9 Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, the
10 Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, five
11 members who shall be appointed by the Governor, no more than
12 three of whom shall be of the same political party, five members
13 who shall be appointed by the President pro tempore of the
14 Senate, no more than three of whom shall be of the same
15 political party, and five members who shall be appointed by the
16 Speaker of the House of Representatives, no more than three of
17 whom shall be of the same political party. The appointed members
18 of the Sportsmen Advisory Council shall be citizens of this
19 Commonwealth, who, during their respective terms, shall hold no
20 other State office to which any salary is attached.
21 (2) The term of office of each appointed member shall be
22 three years, measured from the third Tuesday of January of the
23 year in which he takes office, or until his successor has been
24 appointed; except that in the initial appointments of the
25 members of the Sportsmen Advisory Council, the respective
26 appointing authorities shall appoint two members for terms of
27 one year each, two members for terms of two years each, and one
28 member for a term of three years.
29 (3) The Sportsmen Advisory Council shall include persons
30 knowledgeable in fields related to the work of the Pennsylvania
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1 Fish Commission and the Pennsylvania Game Commission such as,
2 but not limited to, ecology, land management, water pollution,
3 boating, cold-water fisheries, warm-water fisheries, game
4 management, landowner relations, endangered and threatened
5 species, critical habitat and such other matters as may relate
6 to the operations of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission or
7 Pennsylvania Game Commission.
8 (4) The Sportsmen Advisory Council shall annually elect one
9 of its appointed members as chairman and shall elect a secretary
10 who need not be a member of the Sportsmen Advisory Council.
11 Meetings of the Sportsmen Advisory Council shall be held at
12 least quarterly or at the call of the chairman.
13 (5) The Sportsmen Advisory Council shall have power to
14 employ and fix the compensation of such experts, stenographers
15 and assistants as may be deemed necessary to carry out the work
16 of the Sportsmen Advisory Council, but due diligence shall be
17 exercised by the Sportsmen Advisory Council to enlist such
18 voluntary assistance as may be available from citizens, research
19 organizations, and other agencies in Pennsylvania or elsewhere,
20 generally recognized as qualified to aid the Sportsmen Advisory
21 Council. The expenses of the Sportsmen Advisory Council shall be
22 paid equally from the Fish Fund and the Game Fund.
23 (6) The Sportsmen Advisory Council shall review all hunting,
24 trapping, fishing and boating laws of this Commonwealth and make
25 appropriate suggestions for the revision, modification and
26 codification thereof.
27 (7) The Sportsmen Advisory Council shall consider, study and
28 review the work of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission and the
29 Pennsylvania Game Commission and for this purpose, the Sportsmen
30 Advisory Council shall have access to all books, papers,
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1 documents and records pertaining or belonging to the
2 Pennsylvania Fish Commission or the Pennsylvania Game
3 Commission.
4 (8) The Sportsmen Advisory Council shall advise the
5 Pennsylvania Fish Commission and the Pennsylvania Game
6 Commission, on request, and shall make recommendations upon its
7 initiative, for the improvement of the work of the Pennsylvania
8 Fish Commission and the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Advice and
9 recommendations made by the Sportsmen Advisory Council shall not
10 be binding upon the commissions.
11 (9) The Sportsmen Advisory Council shall report annually to
12 the Governor and to the General Assembly and may make such
13 interim reports as are deemed advisable.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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