2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 34 - GAME
Chapter 27 - Hunting and Furtaking Licenses
2706 - Resident license and fee exemptions.

     § 2706.  Resident license and fee exemptions.
        (a)  Agricultural lands.--Unless the privilege to hunt or
     take furbearers has been denied, any person domiciled within
     this Commonwealth who has reached their 12th birthday and
     attained accreditation as provided in section 2704 (relating to
     eligibility for license) and, as a primary means of gaining a
     livelihood, is regularly and continuously engaged in cultivating
     the soil for general farm crop purposes, commercial truck
     growing, commercial orchards or commercial nurseries, as either
     the owner, lessee or tenant of these lands, or as a member of
     the family or household, or regularly hired help of the owner,
     lessee or tenant, shall be eligible to hunt and take furbearers
     on these lands, including the woodlands connected therewith and
     operated as a part thereof, without a hunter's or furtaker's
     license as required in this title. Any of these persons may hunt
     or take furbearers on detached land which is operated under
     written lease as a part of the same farm and is within ten air
     miles of the home farm. Any person eligible to hunt or take
     furbearers on these lands without securing the required license
     may also, by and with the written consent of the owner or lessee
     thereof, hunt or take game or wildlife upon any lands other than
     those publicly owned which lie immediately adjacent to and are
     connected with the lands upon which these persons may lawfully
     hunt or take game or wildlife without securing a license.
        (b)  Disabled veterans.--
            (1)  Any resident disabled veteran of any war or armed
        conflict whose physical disability consists of the loss of
        one or more limbs, or the loss of the use of one or more
        limbs, or whose physical disability is considered total and
        who meets all other qualifications of this title and is
        otherwise mentally and physically fit, shall be issued a
        regular hunting or furtaking license upon application to any
        county treasurer, without the payment of the license cost, if
        that person is domiciled in this Commonwealth.
            (2)  The application for the issuance of this license
        shall, in addition to the other information required by the
        director, contain a statement that the applicant is a war or
        armed conflict veteran and that his physical disability was
        service incurred.
            (3)  The applicant shall produce the applicant's
        discharge papers and a Department of Veterans Affairs
        disability certification to the effect that the applicant
        suffers total physical disability.
            (4)  If a disabled veteran who qualifies for issuance of
        a license under this subsection presents documentation to
        show that the qualifying disability is permanent, the county
        treasurer shall issue the disabled veteran a lifetime hunting
        or furtaking license.
            (5)  In a county where there is no county treasurer by
        virtue of a home rule charter or optional plan of government,
        the county official who performs the functions of a county
        treasurer and who has been designated an issuing agent by the
        commission shall issue licenses under this subsection.
        (b.1)  Prisoners of war.--A former prisoner of war shall be
     entitled to purchase a resident hunting license at the cost of
     $1 plus the current issuing fee upon application to the
     commission. An application under this subsection shall contain
     the same information as is required for other resident hunting
     license applications. As used in this subsection, the term
     "former prisoner of war" means an individual who was imprisoned
     by enemy forces while in the service of the armed forces of the
     United States as certified by the appropriate branch of the
     armed forces of the United States.
        (c)  Landowner antlerless deer license.--Eligible landowners
     who own 50 or more contiguous acres of land within any county
     where the landowners desire to hunt antlerless deer shall be
     entitled to obtain one antlerless deer license for that county,
     at the prescribed fee, issued to one and only one person whose
     name appears on the deed. These antlerless deer licenses shall
     be allocated in advance of their availability to the general
     public from the quota established by the commission for the
     county where the land is situated to landowners who meet all of
     the following requirements:
            (1)  The 50 or more contiguous acres of land are owned by
        a natural person individually or as tenants by the entirety,
        or by a corporation of four or fewer shareholders, or by
        tenants in common of four or fewer natural persons.
            (2)  The 50 or more contiguous acres of land are open to
        public hunting and trapping and shall remain open to hunting
        and trapping during the hunting license year for which the
        antlerless deer license is issued.
            (3)  The applicant for an antlerless deer license shall
        furnish proof of ownership of 50 or more contiguous acres of
        land to the county treasurer within the county where the land
        is situated.
        (d)  Owners or possessors of land open to public hunting.--A
     resident owner or possessor of land, comprising greater than 80
     contiguous acres farmed under a conservation plan which does not
     conflict with the act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), known
     as The Clean Streams Law, and which meets the requirements of 25
     Pa. Code Ch. 102 (relating to erosion control), shall, if he
     permits public hunting as evidenced by enrollment in a
     Cooperative Public Access Program, be entitled to purchase a
     Landowners Hunting License at the cost of $3 plus the current
     issuing fee. The 80-acre requirement shall be exclusive of
     safety zones in excess of 20% of the total acreage. The license
     shall be issued to the owner or possessor or an immediate family
     member of either the owner or possessor living in the same
     household so designated by the owner or possessor in the case of
     a single owner or possessor and to the individual so designated
     in the case of more than one owner or possessor. No person shall
     be issued a hunting license under this subsection unless the
     person is 12 years of age or older, has met the requirements
     prescribed in section 2704 and has not been denied the privilege
     to hunt. A person entitled to receive a hunting license under
     this subsection shall certify to the commission in the form and
     manner prescribed by the commission that the land tract he owns
     or possesses is presently in his ownership or possession.
        (e)  Military personnel hunting licenses.--Resident military
     personnel hunting licenses shall be issued by the commission or
     county treasurer to persons who satisfy all of the following
     requirements:
            (1)  Are residents of this Commonwealth.
            (2)  Are on active and full-time duty in the United
        States Armed Forces.
            (3)  Are assigned to a facility outside this
        Commonwealth.
            (4)  Are on temporary leave in this Commonwealth.
     Such persons shall comply with the regulations of the
     commission.
        (f)  Pennsylvania National Guard hunting licenses.--
            (1)  Pennsylvania National Guard hunting licenses shall
        be issued by the commission or county treasurer to any person
        otherwise eligible for a resident hunting license in this
        Commonwealth who provides documentation that within the
        previous 24 months the person was deployed overseas as a
        member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard or Air
        National Guard on active Federal service for a period of 180
        consecutive days or more or was released early from such
        service because of an injury or disease incurred in the line
        of duty. Only one Pennsylvania National Guard hunting license
        under this subsection may be issued for each qualifying
        deployment of a person applying for the license.
            (2)  The commission may promulgate regulations to
        implement this subsection.
        (g)  Reserve component of armed forces hunting licenses.--
            (1)  Reserve component of the armed forces hunting
        licenses shall be issued by the commission or county
        treasurer to any person otherwise eligible for a resident
        hunting license in this Commonwealth who provides
        documentation that within the previous 24 months the person
        was deployed overseas as a member of the reserve component of
        the armed forces pursuant to 51 Pa.C.S. § 7301 (relating to
        definitions) for a period of 180 consecutive days or more or
        was released early from service because of an injury or
        disease incurred in the line of duty. Only one hunting
        license under this subsection may be issued for each
        qualifying deployment of a person applying for the license.
            (2)  The commission may promulgate regulations to
        implement this subsection.
     (Dec. 17, 1990, P.L.687, No.170, eff. July 1, 1991; Dec. 19,
     1996, P.L.1442, No.184, eff. July 1, 1997; Dec. 30, 2003,
     P.L.436, No.63, eff. July 1, 2004; July 5, 2005, P.L.55, No.19,
     eff. imd.; July 5, 2005, P.L.56, No.20, eff. imd.)

        2005 Amendments.  Act 19 added subsec. (b.1) and Act 20 added
     subsecs. (f) and (g).
        2003 Amendment.  Act 63 added subsec. (e).
        1996 Amendment.  Act 184 amended subsec. (b).
        1990 Amendment.  Act 170 added subsec. (d).
        Cross References.  Section 2706 is referred to in sections
     2701, 2704, 2705, 2709 of this title.