S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5292
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 17, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO, PALMESANO, GOODELL, BRINDISI, TENNEY,
HAWLEY, STEC, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CORWIN, LIFTON,
PEOPLES-STOKES, SALADINO -- 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 section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the
laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
2. 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 hunting license, a muzzle-loading privilege, a trapping
license, and a bowhunting privilege; 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 hunting license, and a
trapping license; a resident of the state who is 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 fish-
ing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; and a resident
who is blind is entitled to receive a fishing 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 seventy is enti-
tled to receive a fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
ing privilege.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.