2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 34 - GAME
Chapter 21 - Game or Wildlife Protection
Section 2126 - Unlawful activities

     § 2126.  Unlawful activities.
        (a)  General rule.--It is unlawful for any person while
     acting under the provisions of this subchapter to:
            (1)  Place any salt, bait or food of any kind or quantity
        or use any artificial means for the purpose of attracting or
        luring any game or wildlife upon any lands.
            (2)  Use any method not approved by the commission except
        that traps may be used to take furbearers and groundhogs.
            (3)  Use any firearm except a center fire propelling a
        single all-lead, lead alloy or expanding bullet or ball to
        kill or attempt to kill any big game animal.
            (4)  Fail or neglect to report the killing of any game or
        wildlife other than raccoons.
            (5)  Fail or neglect to care for the carcass, or any part
        thereof, of any game or wildlife other than raccoons.
            (6)  Refuse to answer, without evasion, upon request of
        any representative of the commission, any pertinent question
        pertaining to the killing or wounding of any game or wildlife
        killed or wounded, or the disposition of the entire carcass
        or any part thereof.
            (7)  Fail to produce satisfactory evidence that material
        damage was done within the preceding 15 days and that there
        was just cause for reasonable apprehension of additional
        imminent destruction.
            (8)  Fail to relinquish to any officer the entire
        carcass, less the entrails, of any game or wildlife, other
        than raccoons, killed to which the person killing the game or
        wildlife is not legally entitled thereto.
            (9)  Fail to comply with any other provision of this
        subchapter.
        (b)  Penalties.--
            (1)  A violation of this subchapter pertaining to big
        game animals is a summary offense of the fourth degree.
            (2)  A violation of this subchapter pertaining to any
        other game or wildlife, other than raccoons, is a summary
        offense of the seventh degree.
            (3)  Each bird or animal involved in a violation
        constitutes a separate offense.