PRINTER'S NO. 1430
No. 1290 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY PHILLIPS, FARGO, GODSHALL, GORDNER, BAKER, BUNT,
NYCE, GEIST, SATHER, WAUGH, HASAY, BROWN, PITTS, B. SMITH,
HESS, SCHEETZ, CLARK AND HERSHEY, APRIL 21, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, APRIL 21, 1993
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.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 301(b) of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 301. Organization of commission.
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10 (b) Qualifications.--An individual who has been or is an
11 employee of the commission may not serve as a member of the
12 commission. Two members of the commission shall serve at-large
13 and be experienced in boating and water safety education and be
14 a registered boat owner in Pennsylvania. The two boatmen members
15 shall represent the various geographical sections and boating
16 interests of this Commonwealth. The remaining eight members
17 shall be persons well informed on the subject of conservation,
18 restoration, fish and fishing and boats and boating and shall be
1 appointed, insofar as practicable, on a bipartisan basis and
2 from the various geographic districts of this Commonwealth so
3 that at all times one and only one member shall be a resident of
4 each of the following districts:
5 (1) First district, consisting of the counties of Erie,
6 Crawford, Mercer, Lawrence, Venango, Butler, Warren, Forest
7 and Clarion.
8 (2) Second district, consisting of the counties of
9 Beaver, Allegheny, Washington, Greene, Armstrong, Indiana,
10 Westmoreland and Fayette.
11 (3) Third district, consisting of the counties of
12 McKean, Elk, Jefferson, Potter, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton
13 and Centre.
14 (4) Fourth district, consisting of the counties of
15 Cambria, Somerset, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Fulton,
16 Mifflin and Juniata.
17 (5) Fifth district, consisting of the counties of Tioga,
18 Lycoming, Union, Snyder, Bradford, Sullivan, Columbia,
19 Montour and Northumberland.
20 (6) Sixth district, consisting of the counties of
21 Franklin, Perry, Cumberland, Adams, Dauphin, York, Lebanon
22 and Lancaster.
23 (7) Seventh district, consisting of the counties of
24 Susquehanna, Wyoming, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Carbon, Wayne,
25 Pike and Monroe.
26 (8) Eighth district, consisting of the counties of
27 Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks,
28 Montgomery, Philadelphia and Delaware.
29 * * *
30 Section 2. The amendment of 30 Pa.C.S.§ 301(b) shall apply
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1 to members of the Fish and Boat Commission who take office on or
2 after the effective date of this act.
3 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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