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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 20, 2015
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  authorizing  developmentally  disabled  residents  of a not-for-profit
  facility to fish without a license

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  11-0707 of the environmental
conservation law, as amended by section 92 of subpart B  of  part  C  of
chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  3.  Any  person  who  is a patient at any facility in this state main-
tained by the United States Veterans' Administration or at any  hospital
or  sanitorium  for treatment of tuberculosis maintained by the state or
any municipal corporation thereof or resident patient at any institution
of the department  of  [Mental  Hygiene]  MENTAL  HYGIENE,  OR  RESIDENT
PATIENT  WHO  IS DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1.03 OF
THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW, AT  A  FACILITY  OPERATED  BY  A  NOT-FOR-PROFIT
CORPORATION  WHEN  SUCH  FACILITY  IS CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE
WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, or resident patient  at  the  rehabili-
tation  hospital  of  the  department of [Health] HEALTH, or at any rest
camp maintained by the state through the [Division] DIVISION of  [Veter-
ans'  Affairs  in  the  Executive  Department]  VETERANS' AFFAIRS or any
inmate of a conservation  work  camp  within  the  youth  rehabilitation
facility  of the department of corrections and community supervision, or
any inmate of a youth opportunity or youth rehabilitation center  within
the  [Office] OFFICE of [Children] CHILDREN and [Family Services] FAMILY
SERVICES, any resident of a nursing  home  or  residential  health  care
facility  as  defined  in  subdivisions two and three of section twenty-
eight hundred one of the public health  law,  or  any  staff  member  or
volunteer  accompanying or assisting one or more residents of such nurs-
ing home or residential health care facility on an outing authorized  by

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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the administrator of such nursing home or residential health care facil-
ity may take fish as if he OR SHE held a fishing license, except that he
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 contain-
ing  such identifying information and data as may be required by it, and
signed by the superintendent or other head of  such  facility,  institu-
tion, hospital, sanitarium, nursing home, residential health care facil-
ity  or  rest  camp, as the case may be, or by a staff physician thereat
duly authorized so to do by the superintendent or  other  head  thereof.
Such  authorization  with  respect  to inmates of said conservation work
camps shall be limited to areas under the care, custody and  control  of
the department.
  S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.