Pennsylvania § 2305 - Threatened and endangered species.
Full text of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes § 2305 — Threatened and endangered species., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 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.)
Source: official Pennsylvania text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 2305 ("Threatened and endangered species.") is part of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, the codified statutory law of Pennsylvania. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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