STATE OF NEW YORK
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788
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
waving fishing, hunting and trapping license fees for certain first
responders
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 is a certi-
19 fied first responder who was disabled as a result of a certified World
20 Trade Center medical condition is entitled to receive free of charge a
21 fishing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; and a resi-
22 dent who is blind is entitled to receive a fishing license free of
23 charge. For the purposes of this subdivision a person is blind only if
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 either: (a) his or her central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in
2 the better eye with correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity
3 is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation of the field
4 of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an
5 angle no greater than 20 degrees.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
