PRINTER'S NO. 1060
No. 927 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY SHELHAMER, NOYE, MYERS, HALVERSON, PITTS,
GIAMMARCO, THOMAS, HASAY, COLE, LETTERMAN, E. H. SMITH,
McINTYRE AND RENWICK, APRIL 7, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, APRIL 8, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1225, No.316), entitled
2 "An act concerning game and other wild birds and wild
3 animals; and amending, revising, consolidating, and changing
4 the law relating thereto," further restricting the selling of
5 raccoon.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 716, act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1225,
9 No.316), known as "The Game Law," amended May 6, 1943 (P.L.195,
10 No.99) and September 28, 1965 (P.L.551, No.285), is amended to
11 read:
12 Section 716. Buying and Selling Game.--Except as otherwise
13 provided by this act, it is unlawful for any person, at any
14 time, to buy, sell, or barter, or offer for sale or barter, or
15 have in possession for sale or barter, any game, or parts
16 thereof, no matter where such game has been killed, excepting
17 deer or rabbits killed in another state or nation, or the
18 [carcasses or] skins of raccoons and the skins of bears, no
19 matter where killed, and other game legally killed and imported
1 from another state or nation when tagged as herein required.
2 Except as otherwise provided by this act, it is unlawful for
3 any person, at any time, to sell or barter, or offer for sale or
4 barter, [for human consumption,] any species of game, or parts
5 thereof, protected by this act or similar thereto, imported
6 either dead or alive from another state or nation, except deer
7 or rabbits, [or raccoons] unless the carton containing such
8 birds or animals, or the individual carcasses, shall have
9 attached a tag identifying the birds or animals in plain
10 English, and giving the state or nation from which originally
11 shipped. Before any such game may be offered for sale, there
12 shall first have been attached to each bird or animal, by a
13 representative of the commission, a metal seal, the cost of
14 which is hereby fixed at five cents, which seal shall remain
15 attached until the carcass is prepared, or finally cut up, for
16 consumption.
17 Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the
18 purchase or sale of game raised under authority of a propagating
19 permit in this Commonwealth and properly tagged; or the
20 [purchase or] sale of live raccoons [legally possessed, for
21 release within the Commonwealth] by the trapper who legally
22 caught the same within this Commonwealth who shall be known as
23 the first party, to any person within the Commonwealth who shall
24 be known as the second party and who shall be required to
25 possess a current resident hunter's license legally issued to
26 him, for the sole purpose of the second party to release such
27 purchased raccoons into a wild state within this Commonwealth
28 for restocking purposes only. The second party shall be required
29 to release all such purchased raccoons into the wild within a
30 period of not more than ten days from the date of purchase from
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1 the first party. It shall be unlawful for the second party to
2 sell or barter, or have in possession for sale or barter, any
3 raccoon purchased from the first party under any circumstances,
4 or for any person to sell, or offer for sale, any raccoon,
5 living or dead, which was taken in this Commonwealth for any
6 other purpose other than as provided herein; or the purchase or
7 sale, or introduction into this State, at any time, of live
8 birds or animals for propagation, liberation, or for any other
9 purpose that has been inspected and legally passed in accordance
10 with the conditions hereinafter stipulated; or to prevent, at
11 any time, the sale within the State, or the shipment out of the
12 State, without a license of any kind, of any animal raised in
13 captivity and not found in a wild state in this Commonwealth; or
14 the purchase or sale of the tanned, cured, or mounted heads or
15 skins, or parts thereof, of any game not killed in a wild state
16 in this Commonwealth, or the sale or purchase of deer hides or
17 any part thereof from animals lawfully killed, if such hides are
18 disposed of by the original owner within ninety days after the
19 close of the previous open season, but this provision shall not
20 be construed to permit any individual or agency other than the
21 commission to sell the skins of deer killed as a protection to
22 crops.
23 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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