PRINTER'S NO. 1112
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
982
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY HICKERNELL, PICKETT, MURT, RYAN, BERNSTINE, KULIK,
CAUSER, CALTAGIRONE, McNEILL, STAATS, ZIMMERMAN, MILLARD,
JAMES, WARREN, GOODMAN, SAYLOR, McCLINTON, HEFFLEY, HILL-
EVANS, MENTZER, MARKOSEK, MULLINS, MASSER, GILLEN, DeLUCA AND
CIRESI, MARCH 26, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 26, 2019
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:
ยง 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
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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.
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