GAME COMMISSION ANNOUNCES 2008-09 LICENSE YEAR WILL NOT INCLUDE POINT-OF-SALE ELECTRONIC LICENSE SYSTEM
Expressing extreme disappointment, Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced that this years hunting licenses will not be sold through an electronic license sale system, commonly referred to as point-of-sale. Beginning in mid-June, the agency will continue to sell paper licenses for the 2008-09 seasons.
Automated Licensing Systems (ALS), the company hired to produce the new license sale system, missed deadlines to have the system in place for the 2007-08 license year and, on Nov. 15 and on March 1, missed two additional deadlines to deliver a fully-operational and fully-tested point-of-sale system for the 2008-09 license year, Roe said. We will not inconvenience our license buyers or our license issuing agents by moving forward with a system that will not serve our customers and sportsmen and sportswomen.
Roe said that staff will again ask the Board of Game Commissioners, at its upcoming meeting on April 21-22, to table regulation changes that were approved preliminarily to accommodate the point-of-sale system, including changes in the antlerless deer license application process.
For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=173820
