PRINTER'S NO. 501
No. 433 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY HICKERNELL, BAKER, BELFANTI, BIANCUCCI, BOYD,
CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, CAUSER, COX, CREIGHTON, CUTLER,
DeLUCA, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, J. EVANS, EVERETT, FABRIZIO,
FREEMAN, GEIST, GEORGE, GRUCELA, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY,
HUTCHINSON, M. KELLER, KORTZ, MANN, MARKOSEK, NAILOR,
O'NEILL, PALLONE, PETRARCA, PHILLIPS, PICKETT, PYLE, RAPP,
READSHAW, REICHLEY, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, SCHRODER, SHIMKUS,
R. STEVENSON, STURLA, TRUE, VULAKOVICH, WALKO, YOUNGBLOOD,
SAINATO AND BASTIAN, FEBRUARY 26, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 26, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for exemptions from license
3 requirements.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2709(b) of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2709. Exemptions from license requirements.
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10 (b) Persons who are blind or have certain physical or mental
11 impairments.--The provisions of this chapter do not apply to
12 those persons who are totally blind, are paraplegic or similarly
13 disabled in the lower extremities or have such severe physical
14 or mental impairments that they are unable to cast or retrieve a
15 line or bait hooks and remove fish if only one legal device is
1 used and the person who is blind or has physical or mental
2 impairments as described in this section is within ten feet of
3 the device being used. The provisions of this chapter also do
4 not apply to the attendant of the person who is blind or has
5 physical or mental impairments described in this section while
6 assisting in using the device.
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8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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