S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6131
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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.