PRINTER'S NO. 3931
No. 2643 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY GOOD, B. SMITH, STABACK, ARMSTRONG, BUNT, FEESE,
GOODMAN, YOUNGBLOOD, CAPPELLI, GERGELY, GILLESPIE AND HANNA,
MAY 26, 2004
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MAY 26, 2004
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for unlawful devices and methods
3 for taking furbearers.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2308(b) of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
8 § 2308. Unlawful devices and methods.
9 * * *
10 (b) Exceptions.--The provisions of subsection (a) shall not
11 apply to:
12 (1) Any archery sight or firearm's scope which contains
13 and uses any mechanical, photoelectric, ultraviolet or solar-
14 powered device to solely illuminate the sight or crosshairs
15 within the scope. No archery sight or firearm's scope shall
16 contain or use any device, no matter how powered, to project
17 or transmit any light beam, infrared beam, ultraviolet light
18 beam, radio beam, thermal beam, ultrasonic beam, particle
1 beam or other beam outside the sight or scope onto the
2 target.
3 (2) (i) Any political subdivision, its employees or
4 agents, which has a valid deer control permit issued
5 under section 2902(c) (relating to general categories of
6 permits).
7 (ii) Any licensed hunter in cities of the first
8 class, while hunting on private property and using a bow
9 and arrow or crossbow, using bait to attract deer for
10 removal as provided by commission regulations.
11 (iii) Any licensed hunter in special regulation
12 areas, other than counties of the second class, using
13 bait to attract deer for removal as provided by
14 commission regulations.
15 (3) Any artificial or manufactured turkey blind
16 consisting of all manmade materials of sufficient density to
17 block the detection of movement within the blind from an
18 observer located outside of the blind.
19 (4) Any decoy used in the trapping or hunting of
20 furbearers.
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22 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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