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                                  7479

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 9, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to free
  hunting, fishing and trapping licenses  to  state  residents  who  are
  active duty members of the United States armed services

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2  of  section  11-0715  of  the  environmental
conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 418 of the laws of 2004, is
amended to read as follows:
  2. A resident in the state for thirty days immediately  prior  to  the
date  of  application who has attained the age of seventy is entitled to
receive all licenses, stamps, tags, buttons, and permits  authorized  by
this  title  for  which  he  or  she is eligible, except turkey permits,
renewable each year for a five dollar fee; a member  of  the  Shinnecock
tribe  or  the Poospatuck tribe or a member of the six nations, residing
on any reservation wholly or partly within the  state,  is  entitled  to
receive  free of charge a fishing license, a small and big game license,
a sportsman license, a muzzle-loading stamp, a trapping license,  and  a
bow hunting stamp; a resident of the state who is a member of the United
States  armed  forces in active service [who is not] REGARDLESS OF WHERE
HE OR SHE IS stationed [within the state and has not been herein  longer
than  thirty  days on leave or furlough], is entitled to receive free of
charge a fishing license, a small and big game license, and  a  trapping
license;  an  active member of the organized militia of the state of New
York as defined by section one of  the  military  law,  or  the  reserve
components  of  the  armed  forces  of  the United States, and excluding
members of the inactive national guard and individual ready reserve,  is
entitled  to  receive  free of charge a fishing license, a small and big
game license, and a trapping license; and a resident  who  is  blind  is
entitled  to  receive a fishing license free of charge. For the purposes

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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of this subdivision a person is blind only if either:  (a)  his  or  her
central  visual  acuity  does  not  exceed 20/200 in the better eye with
correcting lenses, or (b) his or  her  visual  acuity  is  greater  than
20/200  but  is  accompanied by a limitation of the field of vision such
that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no great-
er than 20 degrees.
  A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately  prior
to  the  date  of  application who has attained the age of sixty-five is
entitled to receive a sportsman license at the cost of five dollars as a
license fee.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.