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Purple Paint
By Jeffrey A. Franklin
ummer is a marvelous time to enjoy the outdoors.
Whether you are walking, hiking, fishing or biking,
Pennsylvania offers a variety of places to go and enjoy the
Pennsylvania Game Commission guidelines for posting property with
purple paint.
This law is effective in all but Philadelphia and Allegheny
If you are out for a walk with your family or pets this
summer in Pennsylvania, you might notice purple paint on
fence posts or trees.
You may wonder why purple is popping up more frequently
across the Commonwealth. Well, it's because purple paint
means no trespassing.
A 2020 revision to Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Crimes
Code (2019 Act 103) gives Pennsylvania landowners the
option of using purple paint, rather than signs, to post
their properties and alert others that lands are private and
trespassing isn't permitted.
counties.
Landowners using purple paint to post their properties use
vertical purple lines that are at least 8 inches long and 1 inch wide.
The bottom of the mark must be no less than 3 feet or more than
5 feet from the ground. And painted marks are not more than 100
feet apart.
Now that the " Purple Paint Law " is effective, hunters and
trappers should know they might encounter purple markings on
trees and that these marks are meant to define the boundary of an
adjoining private property that's posted against trespassing.
The new law also authorizes unarmed persons to go onto private
property for the sole purpose of retrieving a hunting dog.
In Pennsylvania, failure to obey purple painted marks, as well as
signs or verbal commands to keep out, is considered defiant trespass
- a third-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail
and $2,500 in fines. If trespassing occurs while hunting, additional
game-law violations - and additional penalties - also might apply.
A recent legislative act has provided the Pennsylvania Game
Commission the authority to investigate trespassing complaints and
enforce trespassing violations as a primary offense, even if game law
violations aren't alleged.
I hope you and yours enjoy the outdoors
this summer and now know a bit more
about the new Purple Paint Law.
Mr. Franklin is a past president of the
Berks County Bar Association and an
attorney with Prince Law Offices.
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outdoors. Deb and I have a Yorkie, Benji, who loves to go for
walks.
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