PRINTER'S NO. 2429
No. 1894 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY D. S. HAYES, BELLOMINI, ZELLER, LEHR AND HOPKINS,
NOVEMBER 17, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, NOVEMBER 18, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 15, 1959 (P.L.1779, No.673),
2 entitled, as amended, "An act relating to fish, frogs,
3 tadpoles and turtles; and amending, revising, consolidating
4 and changing the law relating to fish in the inland waters
5 and the boundary lakes and boundary rivers of the
6 Commonwealth," reducing the fees for resident fishing
7 licenses for the blind, mentally retarded, or severely
8 handicapped.
9 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10 hereby enacts as follows:
11 Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 220, act of December
12 15, 1959 (P.L.1779, No.673), known as "The Fish Law of 1959,"
13 amended July 24, 1973 (No.47), is amended to read:
14 Section 220. Resident Fishing License; Fees.--(a) For the
15 purposes of this article, every person sixteen years of age and
16 upward, upon application to any issuing agent within the
17 Commonwealth, or to the Commission, and upon the establishment
18 of his identity and age to the satisfaction of the issuing agent
19 or the Commission by producing a bank book, letters, lodge
20 cards, police cards, a motor vehicle operator's permit or some
21 other positive means of identification and age, that he has been
1 a bona fide resident of this Commonwealth for a period of sixty
2 days next preceding his application and was born in the United
3 States, and in the case of naturalized foreign-born residents,
4 the production of such applicant's naturalization papers, shall,
5 upon the payment to the issuing agent or the Commission of a
6 license fee of seven dollars fifty cents ($7.50) except as
7 hereinafter provided for blind, or mentally retarded, or unable
8 to use two or more limbs, or persons sixty-five years of age and
9 over for the use of the Commonwealth, and in the event that the
10 license is issued by an issuing agent, a fee of twenty-five
11 cents (25¢) for the use of the issuing agent, be entitled to the
12 license herein referred to as a "resident fishing license."
13 Residents with the above qualifications, who are sixty-five or
14 more years of age at the time of application, shall be entitled
15 to a "resident fishing license" upon payment to said agent or
16 the Commission of a license fee of two dollars ($2.00) for the
17 use of the Commonwealth, and in the event that the license is
18 issued by an issuing agent, a fee of twenty-five cents (25¢) for
19 the use of the issuing agent. The license in such cases shall,
20 in addition to the other information required, give the date of
21 birth of the applicant.
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23 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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