Provides that for the issuance of deer management permits for certain disabled veterans, such veterans shall only have to provide proof of service-related disability once and every year thereafter, provide proof of an expired permit.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8471
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 9, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, GUNTHER, COLTON, WEPRIN, HOOPER, COOK --
read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
issuance of deer management permits for certain disabled veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 11-0913 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as amended by section 46 of part F of
3 chapter 82 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
4 b. In the issuance of permits, the department may give preference to
5 resident license holders and may give preference to disabled veterans
6 having 40 percent or greater disability who shall only have to provide
7 proof of service-related disability one time and every year thereafter,
8 shall provide proof of an expired permit, and to the applications of
9 groups which include a person or the spouse of a person, provided that
10 such spouse lives in the same household, who owns at least 50 acres of
11 land in one parcel in the specified area.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
14 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
15 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
16 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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