Pennsylvania Code › Title 58 - RECREATION › Part III - GAME COMMISSION › Chapter 143 - HUNTING AND FURTAKER LICENSES › Subchapter A - GENERAL › Section 143.5a - Digital hunting and furtaking licenses

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
This section applies only to persons that have elected to
					 conduct hunting and furtaking license transactions by electronic means as
					 determined from the context and surrounding circumstances of the acquisition
					 and production of these digital license documents. Upon the Commission
					 establishing a system to distribute and make available digital license
					 documents, holders of these issued digital documents may produce them as
					 required under the act or this part in digital or printed physical form in the
					 same manner as physical printed licenses issued directly by the Commission or
					 any of its agents, subject to the following:
(1)
Digital documents
. Digital license documents
				  issued by the Commission and stored on a personal electronic device must be
				  capable of immediate retrieval and clear display of the digital document to
				  ensure the readability of all license information contained on the digital
				  document, including any bar codes or QR codes. Failure to retrieve and produce
				  this digital document or its physical alternative to any landowner upon whose
				  land that person may be occupying or to any officer whose duty it is to enforce
				  this title shall constitute a violation under section 2711(a)(12) of the act
				  (relating to unlawful acts concerning licenses).
(2)
Printed digital license documents
. Digital
				  license documents issued by the Commission and subsequently reduced to physical
				  form must be printed on paper or another substantially equivalent medium of
				  such quality, color and contrast to clearly display and ensure the readability
				  of all license information contained on the digital document, including any bar
				  codes or QR codes. Failure to produce this printed digital document or its
				  original physical alternative to any landowner upon whose land that person may
				  be occupying or to any officer whose duty it is to enforce this title shall
				  constitute a violation under section 2711(a)(12) of the act.
(3)
Harvest tags
. The
				  Commission will not issue any digital harvest tags with digital license
				  documents. The Commission or any of its eligible issuing agents will issue
				  harvest tags directly to the holder in physical form only. No further
				  reproduction of these physical documents, digital or otherwise, is authorized
				  to satisfy tagging or marking requirements under the act or this part, except
				  as may be authorized by section 2710 of the act (relating to replacement of
				  lost licenses). Section 2323(c) of the act (relating to tagging and reporting
				  big game kills) regarding licenses issued without tags shall not be construed
				  to apply to digitally issued license documents supplemented by the issuance of
				  physical harvest tags.
(4)
Electronic Transaction Act
. The Electronic Transactions Act,
				  (73
				  P.S. §§
											2260.101-2260.5101), as
				  amended, shall apply to any automated transaction conducted under this section.
				  It is specifically intended that any license acquired and used in a digital
				  format under the authorizations of this section is deemed to be electronically
				  signed and certified by the holder of the document. Digital license documents
				  issued by the Commission and subsequently reduced to physical form shall be
				  signed and certified by the holder in the same manner as physical printed
				  licenses issued directly by the Commission or any of its
				  agents.
The provisions of this §
												143.5a issued under the Game and
						Wildlife Code,
						34 Pa.C.S. §
													2722(g).
This section cited in 58 Pa. Code §
												143.11 (relating to Internet
						license sales).