PRINTER'S NO. 151
No. 146 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY MEBUS, RENWICK, LAUDADIO AND GALLEN,
JANUARY 28, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, JANUARY 28, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1225, No.316), entitled
2 "An act concerning game and other wild birds and wild
3 animals; and amending, revising, consolidating, and changing
4 the law relating thereto," reducing license fees for certain
5 aliens.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 303, act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1225,
9 No.316), known as "The Game Law," amended December 10, 1974
10 (No.267), is amended to read:
11 Section 303. Nonresident Hunting and Alien License Fees.--
12 Every citizen of the United States who is a nonresident of this
13 Commonwealth, upon application made, in writing, to any agent
14 authorized to issue such licenses, or to the commission, unless
15 any such person has been disqualified for a license in the
16 manner hereinafter specified, and upon payment to said agent or
17 commission of forty dollars and thirty-five cents ($40.35) shall
18 be entitled to the license herein designated as a Nonresident
19 Hunter's License and a tag with the number of the license
1 thereon, which shall entitle the holder to hunt for all wild
2 birds and wild animals which may legally be hunted in this
3 Commonwealth, until the close of the license year. Other
4 licenses valid for use by nonresidents and aliens shall be as
5 follows:
6 Nonresident trapper's license which shall be issued only upon
7 application to the Commission in Harrisburg and which shall be
8 effective for the same period as hunters' licenses shall entitle
9 the holder to take through the use of traps or deadfalls only
10 wild birds and wild animals which may legally be trapped in this
11 Commonwealth, except beavers, forty dollars ($40). Nothing in
12 this clause shall be construed to prohibit the holder of a
13 nonresident trapper's license from using a sidearm or a rifle
14 not larger than a .22 rimfire caliber to kill legally caught
15 birds and animals.
16 Every unnaturalized person, upon written application made to
17 any county treasurer of Pennsylvania, any field division office
18 of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, or any agent authorized by
19 the Commission to issue non-resident hunting licenses setting
20 forth satisfactory evidence of his mental and physical fitness
21 to carry and use firearms and presentation of proof of legal
22 entry into the United States, unless any such person has been
23 disqualified for a license in the manner hereinafter specified,
24 and upon the payment to any county treasurer in Pennsylvania,
25 any field division office of the Pennsylvania Game Commission,
26 or any agent authorized by the Commission to issue non-resident
27 hunting licenses the fee of forty dollars and thirty-five cents
28 ($40.35), or if he has filed a Pennsylvania personal income tax
29 return the preceding year, the fee of eight dollars and twenty-
30 five cents ($8.25), shall be entitled to an alien hunter's
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1 license, and the proper tag issued therewith, but the one
2 issuing said license shall indicate on the face of the license
3 that the holder is an alien.
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