Pennsylvania Act 1927-371 — PIGEONS, PROHIBITING SHIPMENT OF

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AN ACT

Prohibiting the shipping, transporting, or conveying, and the sale for shipment, transportation, or conveyance, of live pigeons for market less than six weeks of age.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be unlawful for any person, copartnership, or corporation, being the owner, or any of his or its agents or employes, to ship, transport, or convey, or to sell for shipment, transportation, or conveyance, any live pigeon for market, less than six weeks of age. Any person, copartnership, or corporation violating the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding before a magistrate, alderman, or justice of the peace, be sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars, and, in default of the payment of such fine and costs, shall be imprisoned one day for each dollar of fine and costs unpaid.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.