Provides for the issuance of free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to persons who are active or reserve members of the armed forces or the organized militia, and to honorably discharged veterans thereof who have ten or more years of military service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5352
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 11, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to free
hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to persons who are active or
reserve duty members of the Unites States armed services or of the
organized militia, and to certain veterans thereof
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 he or she is 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 a
14 force of the organized militia [of the state of New York] as defined by
15 section one of the military law, or the reserve components of the armed
16 forces of the United States, and excluding members of the inactive
17 national guard and individual ready reserve, is entitled to receive free
18 of charge a fishing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license;
19 a person, having ten or more years of military service, who has been
20 honorably discharged from active or reserve service in the United States
21 armed forces, or from a force of the organized militia as defined in
22 section one of the military law, excluding the inactive national guard
23 and individual ready reserve, is entitled 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 hunting license, and a trapping license; and a resi-
2 dent who is blind is entitled to receive a fishing license free of
3 charge. For the purposes of this subdivision a person is blind only if
4 either: (a) his or her central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in
5 the better eye with correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity
6 is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation of the field
7 of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an
8 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.
