PRINTER'S NO. 1682
No. 1363 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY LYNCH, J. EVANS, CAPPELLI, CRAHALLA, CREIGHTON,
GABIG, HERSHEY, HORSEY, JAMES, PRESTON, RUBLEY, SHANER,
E. Z. TAYLOR, THOMAS, WATERS AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 6, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MAY 6, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for the organization of the
3 Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission; and making an
4 editorial change.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 301(a) and (b) of Title 30 of the
8 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
9 § 301. Organization of commission.
10 (a) Composition.--The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
11 is continued as an independent administrative commission and
12 shall consist of [ten] eleven competent citizens of this
13 Commonwealth who shall be appointed by the Governor [by and with
14 the advice and consent of two-thirds of the members elected to
15 the Senate] for terms of eight years and until their successors
16 are appointed and qualified.
17 (b) Qualifications.--Two members of the commission shall
18 serve at-large and be experienced in boating and water safety
1 education and be a registered boat owner in Pennsylvania. The
2 two boatmen members shall represent the various geographical
3 sections and boating interests of this Commonwealth. One member
4 shall represent Lake Erie. The member representing Lake Erie
5 shall be a person well informed on the subject of Lake Erie as
6 well as conservation, restoration, fish and fishing and boats
7 and boating. The remaining eight members shall be persons well
8 informed on the subject of conservation, restoration, fish and
9 fishing and boats and boating and shall be appointed, insofar as
10 practicable, on a bipartisan basis and from the various
11 geographic districts of this Commonwealth so that at all times
12 one and only one member of the eight remaining members shall be
13 a resident of each of the following districts:
14 (1) First district, consisting of the counties of Erie,
15 Crawford, Mercer, Lawrence, Venango, Butler, Warren, Forest
16 and Clarion.
17 (2) Second district, consisting of the counties of
18 Beaver, Allegheny, Washington, Greene, Armstrong, Indiana,
19 Westmoreland and Fayette.
20 (3) Third district, consisting of the counties of
21 McKean, Elk, Jefferson, Potter, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton
22 and Centre.
23 (4) Fourth district, consisting of the counties of
24 Cambria, Somerset, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Fulton,
25 Mifflin and Juniata.
26 (5) Fifth district, consisting of the counties of Tioga,
27 Lycoming, Union, Snyder, Bradford, Sullivan, Columbia,
28 Montour and Northumberland.
29 (6) Sixth district, consisting of the counties of
30 Franklin, Perry, Cumberland, Adams, Dauphin, York, Lebanon
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1 and Lancaster.
2 (7) Seventh district, consisting of the counties of
3 Susquehanna, Wyoming, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Carbon, Wayne,
4 Pike and Monroe.
5 (8) Eighth district, consisting of the counties of
6 Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks,
7 Montgomery, Philadelphia and Delaware.
8 * * *
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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