2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 30 - FISH
Chapter 23 - Fish Restoration and Management
Section 2305 - Threatened and endangered species

     § 2305.  Threatened and endangered species.
        (a)  Establishment and publication of lists.--The executive
     director shall establish a Pennsylvania Threatened Species List
     and a Pennsylvania Endangered Species List. The lists, and any
     revisions thereto, shall be published in the Pennsylvania
     Bulletin.
        (b)  Rules, regulations and permits.--The commission may
     promulgate rules and regulations governing the catching, taking,
     killing, importation, introduction, transportation, removal,
     possession, selling, offering for sale or purchasing of
     threatened and endangered species and, if deemed advisable, may
     issue permits for catching, taking or possessing any of those
     species.
        (c)  Penalty.--Any person intentionally violating any rule or
     regulation promulgated under this section commits a misdemeanor
     of the third degree. Each fish caught, taken, killed, imported,
     transported, removed, introduced, possessed, sold, offered for
     sale or purchased in violation of any rule or regulation
     promulgated under this section shall constitute a separate
     offense. Catching a threatened or endangered species shall not
     constitute a violation if it is immediately released where it
     was captured in the condition in which it was captured.
     (July 8, 2007, P.L.82, No.27, eff. imd.)