Waives certain fishing and hunting fees for residents of the state who performed military service in combat or duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger for the five years immediately after his or her return to this state from such military service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8456
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 9, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, ABBATE, MARKEY, ZEBROWSKI, BENEDETTO,
SCHIMMINGER, MAGNARELLI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK,
COLTON, FARRELL, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to waiv-
ing certain fishing and hunting fees for certain members of the mili-
tary serving in combat or subject to hostile fire
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 partly
6 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; a resident of the state who performed
19 military service in combat or duty subject to hostile fire or imminent
20 danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310 (a)(4), and was honorably discharged,
21 is entitled, for the five years immediately succeeding his or her return
22 to the state from such military service, 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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1 fishing license, a small and big game license, and a trapping license;
2 and a resident who is blind is entitled to receive a fishing license
3 free of charge. For the purposes of this subdivision a person is blind
4 only if either: (a) his or her central visual acuity does not exceed
5 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visu-
6 al acuity is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation of
7 the field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field
8 subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees.
9 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
10 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
11 tled to receive a fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
12 license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
13 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
14 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
15 tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
16 ing privilege.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
