Relates to residency requirements for free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; removes certain residency requirements for members of certain tribes and of the armed forces and organized militia.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4344
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to resi-
dency requirements for free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 11-0715 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the
3 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 2. A member of the Shinnecock tribe or the Poospatuck tribe or a
5 member of the six nations, residing [on any reservation wholly or part-
6 ly] within the state, is entitled to receive free of charge a fishing
7 license, a hunting license, a muzzle-loading privilege, a trapping
8 license, and a bowhunting privilege; [a resident of the state who is] a
9 member of the United States armed forces in active service who is not
10 stationed within the state and has not been herein longer than thirty
11 days on leave or furlough, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
12 ing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; [a resident of
13 the state who is] an active member of the organized militia of the state
14 of New York as defined by section one of the military law, or the
15 reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, and exclud-
16 ing members of the inactive national guard and individual ready reserve,
17 is entitled to receive free of charge a fishing license, a hunting
18 license, and a trapping license; and a resident who is blind is entitled
19 to receive a fishing license free of charge. For the purposes of this
20 subdivision a person is blind only if either: (a) his or her central
21 visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting
22 lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is
23 accompanied by a limitation of the field of vision such that the widest
24 diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20
25 degrees.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
2 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
3 tled to receive a fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
4 license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
5 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
6 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
7 tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
8 ing privilege.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2022.
