PRINTER'S NO. 3508
No. 2404 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY REED, BASTIAN, CAPPELLI, ELLIS, EVERETT,
GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY, HORNAMAN,
HUTCHINSON, MAHONEY, PHILLIPS, PYLE, RAPP, ROHRER, SONNEY,
SURRA AND WOJNAROSKI, APRIL 1, 2008
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, APRIL 1, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for the definition of "safety
3 zone."
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2505(c) of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2505. Safety zones.
9 * * *
10 (c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "safety
11 zone" means:
12 (1) Except as otherwise provided in [paragraph (2)]
13 paragraphs (2) and (3), the area within 150 yards around and
14 that area which is below the highest point of any occupied
15 dwelling house, residence, or other building or camp occupied
16 by human beings, or any barn, stable, or other building used
17 in connection therewith or any attached or detached
1 playground of any school, nursery school or day-care center.
2 (2) When applied to properly licensed persons hunting
3 with bow and arrow or crossbow, the area within 50 yards
4 around and that area which is below the highest point of any
5 occupied dwelling house, residence or other building or camp
6 occupied by human beings or any barn, stable or other
7 building used in connection therewith and the area within 150
8 yards around and that area which is below the highest point
9 of any attached or detached playground of any school, nursery
10 school or day-care center.
11 (3) When applied to properly licensed furtakers when
12 trapping within any waterway, watercourse, marsh, pond or
13 dam, or any area making use of any special permit issued in
14 accordance with this title or commission regulations, the
15 area within 50 yards around any occupied dwelling house,
16 residence or other building or camp occupied by human beings,
17 or any barn, stable or other building used in connection
18 therewith and the area within 150 yards around any attached
19 or detached playground of any school, nursery school or day-
20 care center.
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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