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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 25, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. MORINELLO, MILLER, HAWLEY, BRABENEC, SMULLEN,
   NORRIS, LEMONDES, GALLAHAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DiPIETRO,
   McDONOUGH, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Envi-
   ronmental 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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.