2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 34 - GAME
Chapter 23 - Hunting and Furtaking
Section 2323 - Tagging and reporting big game kills

     § 2323.  Tagging and reporting big game kills.
        (a)  Tags issued with licenses.--
            (1)  Each licensed person who kills any big game shall,
        immediately after the killing and before removing the big
        game from the location of the killing, fully complete the
        proper game kill tag in compliance with the instructions
        printed on the tag and attach only the game kill tag to the
        big game. The attached game kill tag shall remain on the big
        game until such time as the big game is processed for
        consumption or prepared for mounting.
            (2)  In any year in which the commission establishes
        check stations, each person shall, within 24 hours after
        killing any big game, present the big game for examination
        and tagging.
            (3)  Within ten days of the kill, the person shall report
        the killing of big game as required in the manner or methods
        prescribed by commission regulations.
        (b)  Killings by persons without license.--Any person not
     required to secure a license who lawfully kills any big game
     shall make and attach a tag to the big game which contains in
     English the person's name, address, date, township, if known,
     and county where the big game was killed. Within five days
     following the kill, the person shall mail, to the headquarters
     of the commission at Harrisburg, a statement setting forth the
     information required on the tag and the sex of the big game.
        (c)  Licenses issued without tags.--Any person who is issued
     a license without the required tags or accompanying report cards
     and who kills any big game shall comply with the provisions of
     subsection (b) and shall also place the license number and
     letter on the tag and postcard report.
        (d)  Existing tags invalidated by replacement license.--The
     issuance of any replacement license shall automatically
     invalidate any remaining game kill tags issued with the lost
     license, and the only valid game kill tags shall be those issued
     with the replacement license last procured. It is unlawful to
     use any game kill tag invalidated by this subsection to tag any
     big game.
        (e)  Duplicated tags unlawful.--It is unlawful to prepare and
     use any duplicated game kill tag or to use any game kill tag to
     mark a second big game animal or to remove any tag from any big
     game contrary to the provisions of this title.
        (f)  Possession of tags after killing legal limit.--It is
     unlawful for any person, after killing the legal limit of big
     game, to be in possession of a big game kill tag while in the
     fields, forests or on the waters or highways within or bordering
     this Commonwealth.
        (g)  Penalty.--
            (1)  Except as provided in paragraph (2), a violation of
        this section is a summary offense of the fifth degree.
            (2)  A violation of subsection (a)(3) is a summary
        offense of the eighth degree.
        (h)  Contraband.--Any big game or any other game or wildlife
     found in possession of any person contrary to this section is
     contraband.
     (Nov. 29, 2004, P.L.1298, No.162, eff. 60 days)

        2004 Amendment.  Act 162 amended subsec. (a)(3).
        Cross References.  Section 2323 is referred to in sections
     2306, 2321 of this title.