PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3508 PRINTER'S NO. 4069
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
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 26, 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 TRAPPING WITHIN A PERMANENT WATERCOURSE AND <--
14 USING TRAPS SUBMERGED IN WATER, OR making use of any special
15 permit issued in accordance with this title or commission
16 regulations, the area within 50 yards around any occupied
17 dwelling house, residence or other building or camp occupied
18 by human beings, or any barn, stable or other building used
19 in connection therewith and the area within 150 yards around
20 any attached or detached playground of any school, nursery
21 school or day-care center.
22 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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