Provides for free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to residents of the state who are active duty members of the U.S. armed forces regardless of where such person is stationed.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4614
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
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 free
hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to state residents who are
active duty members of the United States armed services
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 regardless of where they are stationed [within the state and has not
11 been herein longer than thirty days on leave or furlough], is entitled
12 to receive free of charge a fishing license, a hunting license, and a
13 trapping license; a resident of the state who is an active member of the
14 organized militia of the state of New York as defined by section one of
15 the military law, or the reserve components of the armed forces of the
16 United States, and excluding members of the inactive national guard and
17 individual ready reserve, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
18 ing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; and a resident
19 who is blind is entitled to receive a fishing license free of charge.
20 For the purposes of this subdivision a person is blind only if either:
21 (a) his or her central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the
22 better eye with correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity is
23 greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation of the field of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an
2 angle no greater than 20 degrees.
3 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
4 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
5 tled to receive a fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
6 license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
7 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
8 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
9 tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
10 ing privilege.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
