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                                  4676

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed 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.