2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 30 - FISH
Chapter 21 - General Provisions
Section 2102 - Rules and regulations

     § 2102.  Rules and regulations.
        (a)  General rule.--The commission may promulgate such
     general and special rules and regulations as it deems necessary
     and appropriate concerning fish and fishing in the waters of,
     and elsewhere in, this Commonwealth, including regulations
     concerning the protection, preservation and management of fish
     and fish habitat, permitting and prohibiting fishing, the ways,
     manner, methods and means of fishing, and the health and safety
     of persons who fish or may be in the vicinity of such persons
     on, in or along the waters of, or elsewhere in, this
     Commonwealth. Any person violating a rule or regulation
     promulgated under this subsection which the commission
     designates as being for the protection of fish or fish habitat
     or for the health and safety of persons who fish commits a
     summary offense of the second degree. Any person violating any
     other rule or regulation promulgated under this subsection
     commits a summary offense of the third degree.
        (b)  Seasons, sizes, creel limits and devices.--The rules and
     regulations may establish seasons, sizes, and possession limits
     for fish and fishing, regulate the possession of certain
     species, the number and types of devices and tackle allowed, the
     identification of such devices and the use and possession of
     such devices. Any person who violates a rule or regulation
     promulgated under this subsection commits a summary offense of
     the third degree.
        (c)  Transportation and sale of fish.--Rules and regulations
     may also be promulgated concerning the transportation or
     introduction of, or importation into or within this Commonwealth
     or exporting of fish, the selling, offering for sale or purchase
     of fish or the disturbing of fish in their natural habitat.
     Unless specifically provided otherwise by this title, any person
     violating any rule or regulation promulgated under this
     subsection commits a summary offense of the second degree.
        (d)  Traps, seines, nets and other devices.--Rules and
     regulations may also be promulgated stipulating the size of
     traps, seines, nets and other devices, along with the minimum
     and maximum size of the mesh of the devices, the manner and
     location wherein the devices may be used, the species they may
     be used for, and the season when the devices may be used. Any
     person violating any rule or regulation promulgated under this
     subsection commits a summary offense of the first degree.
     (Dec. 22, 1989, P.L.735, No.102, eff. Jan. 1, 1990)

        1989 Amendment.  Act 102 amended subsecs. (a) and (b).