fulfilling the duty, the commission shall focus primarily on
serving the interest of sportsmen and the special heritage of
recreational hunting and furtaking in this Commonwealth.
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(c) Specific powers and duties.--In order to administrate
and enforce this title, the commission through proper action
shall:
(1) Subject to section 2102(b) (relating to seasons,
possession, bag limits and devices), fix seasons, daily
shooting or taking hours, and any modification thereof, and
daily, season and possession limits for any species of game
or wildlife[.], provided that the antlerless deer rifle
season may not exceed three days during a license year and
occurs only after the end of the antlered deer rifle season.
(2) Remove protection, declare an open season or
increase, reduce or close a season.
(3) Increase or reduce bag limits or possession limits.
(4) Define geographic limitations or restrictions,
except that each county of this Commonwealth shall constitute
a separate wildlife management unit.
(5) Fix the type and number of devices which may be used
to take game or wildlife.
(6) Limit the number of hunters or furtakers in any
designated area and prescribe the lawful methods of hunting
or taking furbearers in these areas[.], except that the
annual number of antlerless deer permits shall be issued
according to each county-based wildlife management unit.
Regarding deer management, the total annual number of
antlerless deer licenses that are allocated by the commission
for each wildlife management unit shall be the number
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