PRINTER'S NO.  505

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

461

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY M. KELLER, BAKER, BELFANTI, BEYER, BOYD, DALLY, GEORGE, GIBBONS, HARRIS, HESS, HUTCHINSON, KORTZ, KULA, MAHONEY, MARSICO, MILLER, MOUL, MURT, PICKETT, PYLE, RAPP, REICHLEY, ROCK, ROHRER, SIPTROTH, SONNEY AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 13, 2009

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 13, 2009  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes, further providing for resident license and fee

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exemptions.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 2706(b)(1) and (3) of Title 34 of the

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Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended and the section

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is amended by adding a subsection to read:

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§ 2706.  Resident license and fee exemptions.

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(b)  Disabled veterans.--

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(1)  Any resident disabled veteran of any war or armed

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conflict whose physical disability consists of the loss of

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one or more limbs, or the loss of the use of one or more

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limbs, or whose physical disability is considered [total] 40%

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or greater and who meets all other qualifications of this

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title and is otherwise mentally and physically fit, shall be

 


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issued a regular hunting or furtaking license upon

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application to any county treasurer, without the payment of

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the license cost, if that person is domiciled in this

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Commonwealth. The disabled veteran shall be entitled to

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archery and muzzleloader privileges, without the payment of

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the license cost, if that person is domiciled in this

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Commonwealth.

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(3)  The applicant shall produce the applicant's

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discharge papers and a Department of Veterans Affairs

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disability certification to the effect that the applicant

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suffers [total] 40% or greater physical disability.

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(h)  Senior citizens.--A senior citizen who holds any of the

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following shall be entitled to archery and muzzleloader

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privileges without the payment of the license cost:

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(1)  A senior resident hunting license or a senior

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lifetime resident hunting license.

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(2)  A senior resident combination hunting and furtaking

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license or a senior lifetime resident combination hunting and

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furtaking license.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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