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                                   5029
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
   issuance of free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to members  of
   the Seneca nation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 4  of  section
 11-0703  of  the environmental conservation law, as amended by section 2
 of part R of chapter 58 of the laws of  2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (2)  Indian  residents  or  members of the six nations residing on any
 reservation wholly or partly within the state, AND MEMBERS OF THE SENECA
 NATION RESIDING WITHIN THE STATE; and
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 11-0715 of the  environmental  conserva-
 tion 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, OR A MEMBER OF THE SENECA NATION RESIDING WITHIN THE
 STATE, is entitled to receive free of charge a fishing license, a  hunt-
 ing  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 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 receive free of charge a fishing license, a hunting license, and a trap-
 ping license; and a resident who is blind is entitled to receive a fish-
 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 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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.