PENNSYLVANIA, March 14 - PRINTER'S NO. 425

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

439

Session of

2023

INTRODUCED BY LAUGHLIN, PENNYCUICK, BARTOLOTTA, STEFANO AND

BREWSTER, MARCH 14, 2023

REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 14, 2023

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.--

[(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

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