Allows persons having a medically determinable impairment of sufficient severity and duration to qualify for benefits under the federal social security act to take fish as if he or she held a fishing license.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4112
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
allowing certain disabled persons to take fish without a license
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 11-0707 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3 3-a. Any person who is disabled may take fish as if he or she held a
4 fishing license, except that he or she may not take bait fish by net or
5 trap, if he or she has on his or her person an authorization upon a form
6 furnished by the department containing such identifying information and
7 data as may be required by it. For the purposes of this subdivision
8 "disabled" means having a medically determinable impairment of suffi-
9 cient severity and duration to qualify for benefits under section 1902
10 (a)(10)(A)(ii)(xv) of the social security act.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
12 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
13 ly, the commissioner of environmental conservation is authorized and
14 directed to add, amend, and/or repeal any rule or regulation necessary
15 for the timely implementation of this act on such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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