Assembly Bill A4653

                             
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                                   4653
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEMPOLINSKI -- 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] SUCH PERSON'S central
 visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye  with  correcting
 lenses,  or (b) [his or her] SUCH PERSON'S 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 great-
 er 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.