Pennsylvania Act 2020-16 — GAME AND WILDLIFE CODE (34 PA.C.S.) - PRICE PAID FOR ACQUISITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS

Act text

Session of 2020

No. 2020-16

HB 752

AN ACT

Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in property and buildings, further providing for price paid for acquisitions and improvements.

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

Section 1. Section 705(a) of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 705. Price paid for acquisitions and improvements.

(a) Game lands.--[The]

(1) Except as provided under paragraph (2), the commission may pay for lands to be used as game lands what it considers a fair and reasonable price not to exceed $400 per acre exclusive of Federal and other cost-sharing funds and consistent with the market value of land in the locality in which the game land is located.

(2) The commission may pay for lands to be used as game lands in a county of the second class what it considers a fair and reasonable price exclusive of Federal and other cost-sharing funds and consistent with the market value of land in the locality in which the game land is located.

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

APPROVED--The 29th day of April, A.D. 2020.

TOM WOLF