The New York State Senate

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                                  3991

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 22, 2019
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Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 persons who are active or
  reserve duty members of the Unites States armed  services  or  of  the
  organized militia, and to certain veterans thereof

  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 A
FORCE  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 hunting license, and a trapping  license;
A  PERSON,  HAVING  TEN  OR MORE YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE, WHO HAS BEEN
HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM ACTIVE OR RESERVE SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATES
ARMED FORCES, OR FROM A FORCE OF THE ORGANIZED  MILITIA  AS  DEFINED  IN
SECTION  ONE  OF THE MILITARY LAW, EXCLUDING THE INACTIVE NATIONAL GUARD
AND INDIVIDUAL READY RESERVE, IS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE FREE  OF  CHARGE  A

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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FISHING  LICENSE, A HUNTING LICENSE, AND A TRAPPING LICENSE; and a resi-
dent 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.
  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.
  § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.