Limitation on disclosure of certain records - 34 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 325

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     § 325.  Limitation on disclosure of certain records.
        (a)  General rule.--It is unlawful for any game protector,
     deputy game protector, hunting license issuing agent, or any
     officer, employee or agent of any Commonwealth agency, or any
     other private business or agency which makes or receives records
     of hunting and trapping licenses, or applications for obtaining
     hunting and trapping licenses of any type received pursuant to
     this title, to sell, publish or disclose in any manner
     whatsoever those records or affiliations to any person except as
     necessary to carry out the functions and business of the
     commission, or for any person to purchase, secure, procure or
     disclose any records or affiliations as described herein.
        (b)  Publications.--It is unlawful for the commission, the
     director, any game protector or deputy game protector, any
     officer, employee or agent of the commission or any private
     business or agency to sell, publish or disclose in any manner
     any subscription lists or mailing lists for publications issued
     under section 302(e) (relating to publications).
        (c)  Nonapplication.--The provisions of this section shall
     not apply to records and reports:
            (1)  Required for prosecutions of any violations of this
        title.
            (2)  Required for administrative proceedings held
        pursuant to the laws of this Commonwealth.
            (3)  Required for the prosecution of any violation of any
        Federal laws or the laws of any state of the United States.
            (4)  Required to be published to enforce the suspension
        or revocation of hunting and trapping privileges by the
        commission.
            (5)  Authorized by action of the commission for the sole
        purpose of exercising legitimate governmental function or
        duty.
            (6)  Required to determine the identification of a
        trapper under section 2361(a)(12) (relating to unlawful acts
        concerning taking of furbearers), when such information is
        requested by a landowner, an agent of a landowner or a lessee
        of land.
     When such records and reports are made available by the
     commission for the limited purposes set forth in paragraphs (1)
     through (6), they shall not be published, circulated or
     disclosed by the receiving agency for any purposes.
        (d)  Penalty.--Any person violating any provision of this
     section commits a summary offense of the fifth degree. The
     record or report or name of each individual person shall
     constitute a separate offense.
     (May 28, 1992, P.L.262, No.45, eff. July 1, 1992)

        2006 Partial Repeal.  Section 3 of Act 60 of 2006 provided
     that subsection (d) is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent
     with section 1(g) of Act 60.
        1992 Amendment.  Act 45 amended subsec. (c).
        Cross References.  Section 325 is referred to in sections
     302, 2361 of this title.

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