2708 - Institutional licenses.
§ 2708. Institutional licenses. Any resident of this Commonwealth who is a resident patient in a Commonwealth owned and supported institution for mental disability, geriatric center, tubercular hospital or county home or hospital, or any veteran who is a patient in a United States Government Veterans' Administration Hospital or in a State veterans' home, or who is a juvenile of a State youth development center or forestry camp, and who may benefit from recreational fishing during the course of treatment, rehabilitation or hospitalization may be issued a resident fishing license without paying a license fee. Licenses authorized by this section may be issued by the superintendent or chief medical officer of the institution who shall sign an affidavit certifying that recreational fishing may be of benefit to the rehabilitation of the patient and that the patient is an inpatient of the institution. The affidavits, and records of the number and to whom the licenses were issued, shall be forwarded to the commission on such forms as the commission shall provide. The commission may revoke license issuing privileges of any institution for failure to comply with any provisions of this chapter or regulations promulgated thereunder. (June 25, 1982, P.L.631, No.180, eff. Jan. 1, 1983)