PRINTER'S NO. 2651
No. 2037 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, DECEMBER 1, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, DECEMBER 1, 1997
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 2 Statutes, providing for a public comment period and a public 3 hearing on any proposed special fishing regulation affecting 4 approved trout waters. 5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 6 hereby enacts as follows: 7 Section 1. Section 2102 of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania 8 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read: 9 § 2102. Rules and regulations. 10 * * * 11 (e) Special fishing regulations affecting approved trout 12 waters.--No proposed designation under any special fishing 13 regulation affecting any approved trout waters shall take effect 14 until the executive director files a written notice with the 15 Pennsylvania Bulletin certifying that the commission or the 16 executive director solicited public comments on the proposed 17 designation for a period of 90 consecutive days and that ten 18 days after the close of the public comment period, a public 19 hearing on the proposed designation was held in the geographic
1 area affected by the proposed designation.
2 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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