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Senate Bill S6199

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Allows certain disabled persons to fish without a license

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2009-S6199 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2337
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง11-0707, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S615, A2110
2013-2014: S2262, A153
2015-2016: A1440
2017-2018: A4112

2009-S6199 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows persons having a medically determinable impairment of sufficient severity and duration to qualify for benefits under the federal social security act to take fish as if he or she held a fishing license.

2009-S6199 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6199 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6199

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                           September 30, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  allowing certain disabled persons to take fish without a license

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

  Section 1. Section 11-0707 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
  3-A.  ANY  PERSON WHO IS DISABLED MAY TAKE FISH AS IF HE OR SHE HELD A
FISHING LICENSE, EXCEPT THAT HE OR SHE MAY NOT TAKE BAIT FISH BY NET  OR
TRAP, IF HE OR SHE HAS ON HIS OR HER PERSON AN AUTHORIZATION UPON A FORM
FURNISHED  BY THE DEPARTMENT CONTAINING SUCH IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AND
DATA AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY IT.   FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION
"DISABLED"  MEANS  HAVING  A MEDICALLY DETERMINABLE IMPAIRMENT OF SUFFI-
CIENT SEVERITY AND DURATION TO QUALIFY FOR BENEFITS UNDER  SECTION  1902
(A)(10)(A)(II)(XV) OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
ly,  the  commissioner  of  environmental conservation is authorized and
directed to add, amend, and/or repeal any rule or  regulation  necessary
for the timely implementation of this act on such effective date.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03155-01-9

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