Assembly Bill A5594

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to fees for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A5594 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1040
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0715, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10812, S6520
2013-2014: A5830, S1115
2015-2016: A3845, S3029
2019-2020: A4566
2021-2022: A4294
2023-2024: A2350

2017-A5594 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to fees for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; provides free fishing, hunting and trapping licenses for certain members of the military.

2017-A5594 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5594
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MORINELLO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to  fees
   for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses
 
   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
 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 fish-
 ing 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 exclud-
 ing members of the inactive national guard and individual ready reserve,
 is entitled to receive free of  charge  a  fishing  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 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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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