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                                  1636

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to waiv-
  ing certain fishing and hunting fees for members of the United  States
  armed forces in active service

  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]  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  trap-
ping license; and a resident who is blind is entitled to receive a fish-

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

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ing  license  free  of  charge.  For  the purposes 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 greater 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.