PRINTER'S NO. 2596
No. 1994 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY FEESE, ZUG AND KREBS, NOVEMBER 24, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, NOVEMBER 24, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for buying and selling of game
3 and wildlife.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2312(c) of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2312. Buying and selling game.
9 * * *
10 (c) Exception.--
11 (1) Nothing in this section shall be construed to
12 prevent the purchase or sale of game raised under authority
13 of a propagating permit in this Commonwealth or the capture
14 and sale of game or wildlife after securing a permit from the
15 director and payment of any fees established by the
16 commission or the purchase or sale of the tanned, cured or
17 mounted heads or skins, or parts thereof, of any game or
18 wildlife not killed in a wild state in this Commonwealth, or
1 the sale or purchase of any inedible part thereof, from game
2 or wildlife lawfully killed, if such parts are disposed of by
3 the original owner within 90 days after the close of the
4 season in which the game or wildlife was taken. Prior to
5 selling parts of game or wildlife under the provisions of
6 this subsection, all edible parts shall be removed.
7 (2) The commission may, by regulation, authorize the
8 buying and selling of inedible parts of game and wildlife as
9 it deems appropriate.
10 (3) This subsection shall not be construed to permit any
11 individual or agency other than the commission to sell the
12 skins or parts of game or wildlife killed as a protection to
13 crops, or accidentally killed upon the highways, or seized as
14 contraband.
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16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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