THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY HICKERNELL, J. EVANS, ADOLPH, AUMENT, BARBIN, BOYD, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CONKLIN, P. COSTA, CUTLER, DENLINGER, EVERETT, FLECK, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRELL, GROVE, HESS, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, M.K. KELLER, KILLION, KULA, LONGIETTI, MANN, MARSHALL, MILLARD, MILLER, MOUL, PICKETT, RAPP, READSHAW, ROCK, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, STERN, STURLA AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 23, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 23, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, in fishing licenses, further providing for

exemptions from license requirements.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 2709(b) of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 2709.  Exemptions from license requirements.

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(b)  Persons who are blind or have certain physical or mental

impairments.--The provisions of this chapter do not apply to

those persons who are totally blind, are paraplegic or similarly

disabled in the lower extremities or have such severe physical

or mental impairments that they are unable to cast or retrieve a

line or bait hooks and remove fish if only one legal device is

used and the person who is blind or has physical or mental

impairments as described in this section is within ten feet of

the device being used. The provisions of this chapter also do

not apply to the attendant of the person who is blind or has

physical or mental impairments described in this section while

assisting in using the device.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.