PRINTER'S NO. 394
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
403
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY ROBINSON, FONTANA, VOGEL, MARTIN, KANE, GORDNER,
STEFANO, BOSCOLA, DUSH, LAUGHLIN, MENSCH AND REGAN,
MARCH 11, 2021
REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 11, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in registration and titling of boats, further
providing for period of registration.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5308 of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 5308. Period of registration.
(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in
subsection (b):
(1) Registrations issued under this subchapter to owners
and dealers shall be valid from April 1 of one year to March
31 of the succeeding year and shall be renewable. A
registration for any year shall be valid and may properly be
displayed prior to April 1 within that year.
(2) The commission may determine to issue registrations
valid for a period not to exceed three years upon payment of
a fee equal to the annual registration fee times the number
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of years for which the multiple-year registration is valid. A
multiple-year registration shall be valid from April 1 of the
year of its issuance until March 31 of the last year of its
validity, but a multiple-year registration issued prior to
April 1 of any year is valid and may be displayed at any time
within that year.
(3) The commission may, by regulation, provide for the
transfer of multiple-year registrations upon the sale or
conveyance of a boat upon payment of the fee provided in
section 5104(8) (relating to fees).
(b) Calendar-year registrations.--Registrations issued on or
after the effective date of this subsection shall be subject to
the following provisions:
(1) Registrations issued under this subchapter to owners
and dealers shall be valid from January 1 through December 31
of the calendar year and shall be renewable. A registration
for a calendar year shall be valid and may properly be
displayed at any time through December 31 of the calendar
year of its issuance.
(2) The commission may determine to issue registrations
valid for a period not to exceed three years upon payment of
a fee equal to the calendar year registration fee times the
number of calendar years for which the multiple-calendar-year
registration is valid. A multiple-calendar-year registration
shall be valid from January 1 of the calendar year of its
issuance until December 31 of the last calendar year of its
validity and may be displayed at any time through December 31
of the last calendar year of its issuance.
(3) The commission may, by regulation, provide for the
transfer of multiple-calendar-year registrations upon the
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sale or conveyance of a boat upon payment of the fee provided
in section 5104(a)(8).
Section 2. Within 18 months of the effective date of this
section, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission shall
promulgate and publish in the Pennsylvania Bulletin final
regulations to implement the amendment of 30 Pa.C.S. § 5308.
Section 3. This act shall take effect as follows:
(1) Section 2 of this act and this section shall take
effect immediately.
(2) The remainder of this act shall take effect upon
publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin of the final
regulations under section 2 of this act.
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