PRINTER'S NO. 625
No. 580 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY MADIGAN, KASUNIC, ERICKSON, BAKER, RAFFERTY,
M. WHITE, PIPPY, FOLMER AND D. WHITE, MARCH 20, 2007
REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 20, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, permitting use of dogs in hunting for wild turkeys.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 2383 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
7 § 2383. Dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.
8 [It] (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection
9 (b), it is unlawful for any person to make use of a dog in any
10 manner to hunt for or to take big game or to permit a dog owned,
11 controlled or harbored by that person to pursue, harass, chase,
12 scatter, injure or make use of a dog to kill any big game.
13 (b) Exception.--It shall be lawful to make use of a dog to
14 pursue, chase, scatter and track wild turkeys during the fall
15 wild turkey season.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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