PRINTER'S NO. 4264
No. 2789 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY PETRARCA, PISTELLA, CALTAGIRONE, FABRIZIO,
GRUCELA, SAYLOR, SHANER, PALLONE AND SIPTROTH, JUNE 19, 2006
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, JUNE 19, 2006
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing that hunting and trapping are property
3 rights.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 103 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 103. Ownership, jurisdiction [and], control of game and
9 wildlife and property rights.
10 (a) General rule.--The ownership, jurisdiction over and
11 control of game or wildlife is vested in the commission as an
12 independent agency of the Commonwealth in its sovereign capacity
13 to be controlled, regulated and disposed of in accordance with
14 this title.
15 (b) Method of management.--The commission shall utilize
16 hunting and trapping as methods of effecting necessary
17 management of game, furbearer and wildlife populations.
18 (c) Property rights.--Hunting and trapping are property
1 rights which cannot be taken away without the benefit of due
2 process of law.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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