278 LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA, appraisal given, in writing, by three (3) or more persons competent to give appraisal by reason of being a manufac- turer, dealer or user of such furniture or equipment. In no instance shall the school district pay more than the average of such appraised values. Necessary costs of securing such appraised values may be paid by the school district. Provided when appraised value is deter- mined to be more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), purchase may be made only after public notice has been given by advertisement once a week for three (3) weeks in not less than two (2) newspapers of general circula- tion. In any district where no newspaper is published, said notice may, in lieu of such publication, be posted in at least five (5) public places. Such advertisement shall specify the items to be purchased, name the vendor, state the proposed purchase price, and state the time and place of the public meeting at which such proposed purchase shall be considered by the board of school directors. APPROVED—The 8th day of June, A. D. 1961. DAVID L. LAWRENCE

No. 163 AN ACT Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P. L. 1225), entitled “An act concerning and other wild birds and wild animals; and amending, revising, consolidating, and changing the law relating thereto,” removing provisions relating to archery preserves. The Game Law. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania hereby enacts as follows: Section 317, act of June 3, 1937, Section 1. Section 317, act of June 3, 1937 (P. L. P. L. 1225, 1225), known as “The Game Law,” amended June 14, amended June 14, 1957, P. L. 1957 (P. L. 307), is amended to read: 807, further amended. Section 317. Legal or Trapping by Resi- Hunting licenses. dents Without License.—Unless the right to procure a license or to hunt or trap anywhere within the Common- owner, wealth has been denied under the provisions of this act, lessee or tenant cultivating land, any citizen of the United States residing within this employes and family residing Commonwealth who is regularly and continuously en- thereon, not gaged in cultivating the for general farm crop pur- required to have license to hunt poses, commercial truck growing, commercial orchards or trap on such or commercial nurseries, as either the owner or lessee or land. tenant of said , or as a member of the family or household or regularly hired help of such owner or lessee or tenant, shall be eligible to hunt and trap on said lands, including the woodlands connected therewith and op- erated as a part thereof, without a resident hunter’s SESSION OF 1961. 279 license or an archery license, [or an archery preserve permit] if such owner, lessee, tenant, member of the fam- ily or household or hired help resides in a dwelling situ- ated upon the property so being cultivated and shall have continuously resided thereon and assisted in the cultivation of said land for a period of sixty or more days prior to the general open hunting or trapping season. Such persons Any of the *persOnS enumerated above who shall be need no license eligible to hunt or trap on certain lands without securing to hunt on adjacent land a resident hunter’s license or an archery license, [or with consent of an archery preserve permit] also may, by and with the owner. written consent of the owner or lessee thereof, hunt or trap upon any lands other than those publicly-owned which lie immediately adjacent and are connected with the lands upon which such persons may lawfully hunt or trap without securing a license [or permit]. Second Section 2. The second paragraph of subsection (e) paragraph, of section 501 of the act, amended June 14, 1957 (P. L. subsection (e), section 501 of 307) and June 28, 1957 (P. L. 398), is amended to read: the act, amended June 14, 1957, P. L. 307 and Section 501. Open Seasons.— June 28, 1957, P. L. 398, * * * * * further amended. (e) Open Season For Hunting Deer with Bows and Arrows.— * ~ * * * No person shall hunt for or kill any deer during such required. additional open archery season with bow and arrow without first having secured a hunting license and, in addition thereto, an archery license from the Depart- ment of Revenue or county treasurer when designated as an issuing agent of the Department of Revenue, the fee for which is hereby fixed at two dollars. Such license shall be attaëhed to the hunter’s license certificate for the current year and shall be countersigned in ink diag- onally across its face by the licensee before hunting in the open season herein provided for. [Any person secur- ing an archery license under the provisions of this sub- section shall also be entitled to hunt for and kill game, of any kind during a lawful open season with bow and arrow on the archery preserves provided for under sec- tion nine hundred thirty-six, without securing the per- mit required in that section; and any person securing the archery preserve permit under the provisions of sec- tion nine hundred thirty-six shall be entitled to hunt for and kill deer with bow and arrow during the open arch- ery season provided for in this subsection, without secur- ing the archery license herein provided for.] * * * * e

* “person” in original. 280 LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA,

Section 938 Section 3. Section 936 of the act is repealed. repealed. APPROVED—The 8th day of June, A. D. 1961. DAVID L. LAWRENCE

No. 164 AN ACT

Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P. L. 30), entitled “An act relating to the public school system, including certain provisions applicable as well to private and parochial schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the laws relating thereto,” prohibiting the purchase of insurance from or through any person employed by the school district in a teaching or ad- ministrative capacity.

Public School The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn- Code of 1949. sylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Subsection (a), Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 513, act of section 513, act of March 10, March 10, 1949 (P. L. 30), known as the “Public School 1949, P. L. 30, amended May 9, Code of 1949,” amended May 9, 1949 (P. L. 939). is 1949, P. L. 939, amended to read: further amended. Section 513. Group Tnsuranee Contracts.—(a) Any school district may make contracts of insurance with any insurance company, or nonprofit hospitalization corpo- ration, or nonprofit medical service corporation, author- ized to transact business within the Commonwealth, in- suring its employes, or any class or classes thereof, under a policy or policies of group insurance covering , health, hospitalization, medical service, or accident in- surance, and may contract with any such company granting annuities or pensions, for t.he pensioning of such employes. and for such purposes may agree to pay part or all of the premiums or charges for carrying such contracts, and may appropriate out of its treasury any money necessary to pay such premiums or charges or portions thereof. No contract or contracts of insurance authorized by this section shall be purchased from or through any person employed by the school district in a teaching or administrative capacity. * * * * * St~cti,,a774 of Section 2. Section 774 of the act, amended Septem- the act, amended September 26. ber 26, 1951 (P. L. 1527), is amended to read: 1951, P. L. 1527, further amended. Section 774. Insurance on Buildings; Public Liabil- ity Insurance for Ernployes; Purchase of Insurance From Employcs, etc.—(a) The hoard of school directors in every school district shall have full i)OWer and author- ity to make and enter into any contract or contracts it may deem proper with any person, firm or corporation, including any mutual fire insurance company authorized