§ 5303. Definitions
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 32 P.S. Forests, Waters and State Parks
32 P.S. § 5303
§ 5303. Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section:
“Board.” The Wild Resource Conservation Board.
“Department.” The Department of Environmental Resources1 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
“Fund.” The Wild Resource Conservation Fund.
“Management.” The entire range of activities that constitute a modern scientific resource program including, but not limited to, the collection and application of biological data through research, census, habitat acquisition, habitat improvement and education.
“Wild plant.” Any and all naturally occurring native flora, except those commonly considered an agricultural commodity, including green and nongreen species or subspecies or any part, product, seed or offspring thereof.
“Wild resource.” All fauna not commonly pursued, killed or consumed either for sport or profit, but not including any domestic fauna or any domestic fauna that has reverted to a feral existence, and all flora not commonly considered an agricultural commodity.
Credits
1982, June 23, P.L. 597, No. 170, § 3, effective Jan. 1, 1983.
Footnotes
The powers and duties vested in the Department of Environmental Resources with respect to the study and protection of the Commonwealth's ecological and geological resources by this statute have been transferred to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. See 71 P.S. § 1340.305(a)(9).
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Current through Act 11 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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