Pennsylvania Act 2013-83 — GAME AND WILDLIFE CODE (34 PA.C.S.) - LIABILITY FOR ACTIONS OF OTHERS

Act text

Session of 2013

No. 2013-83

SB 648

AN ACT

Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in enforcement, further providing for liability for actions of others.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 924 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 924. Liability for actions of others.

(a) General rule.-- A person who causes an unlawful act to be done by another person which, if directly performed by the person causing the unlawful act would be in violation of this title, is punishable as a principal.

(b) Exclusion.--A landowner who allows or grants permission to a person to take game or wildlife on the landowner's property shall not be liable under this section for an unlawful act committed by that person unless the landowner willfully aids, abets, assists, attempts or conspires in the commission of the unlawful act.

Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

APPROVED--The 1st day of November, A.D. 2013.

TOM CORBETT