Pennsylvania § 2383 Dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 2383 — Dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game

Pennsylvania § 2383

Title 34GAME

Ch. 23HUNTING AND FURTAKING

Subch.DOGS PURSUING GAME OR WILDLIFE

This text of Pennsylvania § 2383 (Dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

34 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2383 (2026).

Text

(a)General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), it is unlawful for any person to make use of a dog in any manner to hunt for or to take big game or to permit a dog owned, controlled or harbored by that person to pursue, harass, chase, scatter, injure or make use of a dog to kill any big game.

(b)Exception.--It shall be lawful to do any of the following:

(1)Make use of a dog to pursue, chase, scatter and track wild turkeys during the fall wild turkey season.

(2)Make use of a leashed tracking dog to track a white-tailed deer, bear or elk in an attempt to recover an animal which has been legally killed or wounded during any open season for white-tailed deer, bear or elk.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), it is unlawful for any person to make use of a dog in any manner to hunt for or to take big game or to permit a dog owned, controlled or harbored by that person to pursue, harass, chase, scatter, injure or make use of a dog to kill any big game.

(b) Exception.--It shall be lawful to do any of the following:

(1) Make use of a dog to pursue, chase, scatter and track wild turkeys during the fall wild turkey season.

(2) Make use of a leashed tracking dog to track a white-tailed deer, bear or elk in an attempt to recover an animal which has been legally killed or wounded during any open season for white-tailed deer, bear or elk.

Legislative History

(June 30, 2007, P.L.62, No.18, eff. imd.; Mar. 26, 2018, P.L.86, No.11, eff. imd.) Cross References.Section 2383 is referred to in section 2386 of this title.