A07082 Summary:
| BILL NO | A07082 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S04176 |
| SPONSOR | Thiele |
| COSPNSR | DiPietro, Finch, Garbarino, Graf, Gunther, McKevitt, Montesano, Palmesano, Raia, Santabarbara |
| MLTSPNSR | Cook, Duprey, Hawley, Johns, Schimminger, Titone |
| Amd SS11-0715 & 11-0702, En Con L | |
| Relates to the cost of various hunting, fishing and trapping licenses. | |
A07082 Actions:
| BILL NO | A07082 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 04/23/2015 | referred to environmental conservation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/06/2016 | referred to environmental conservation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A07082 Committee Votes:
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Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7082 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 23, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, BORELLI, DiPIETRO, FINCH, GARBARINO, GRAF, GUNTHER, McKEVITT, MONTESANO, NOJAY, PALMESANO, RAIA, ROBERTS, SANTABARBARA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DUPREY, HAWLEY, JOHNS, SCHIMMINGER, TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the cost of various hunting, fishing and trapping licenses 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; and a resident who is blind is entitled 19 to receive a fishing license free of charge. For the purposes of this 20 subdivision a person is blind only if either: (a) his or her central 21 visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting 22 lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02366-01-5A. 7082 2 1 accompanied by a limitation of the field of vision such that the widest 2 diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 3 degrees. 4 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior 5 to the date of application who has attained the age of [seventy] sixty- 6 five is entitled to receive a fishing license, a trapping license, and a 7 hunting license, at a cost of five dollars for each license. 8 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior 9 to the date of application who has attained the age of [seventy] sixty- 10 five is entitled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a 11 muzzle-loading privilege. 12 Each applicant for a license, permit or privilege shall pay to the 13 issuing officer a fee, according to the license, permit or privilege 14 issued and the residence or other qualification of the applicant. 15 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 11-0702 of the environmental conserva- 16 tion law, as amended by section 16 of part R of chapter 58 of the laws 17 of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 18 1. There are hereby created the following lifetime hunting, fishing, 19 trapping, archery and muzzle-loading privileges and fees therefor 20 subject to the same privileges and obligations of a comparable short 21 term license: 22 Licenses Fees 23 a. Lifetime license 24 including a hunting license, 25 fishing license and turkey 26 permit. If purchased, 27 for a child four years 28 of age or younger $380.00 29 for a child age five through 30 eleven years of age $535.00 31 for a person age twelve through 32 [sixty-nine] sixty-four 33 years of age $765.00 34 for a person age [seventy] 35 sixty-five and over. $ 65.00 36 b. Lifetime 37 hunting license. $535.00 38 c. Lifetime fishing 39 license for a person age 40 [sixty-nine] sixty-four 41 or younger. $460.00 42 d. Lifetime fishing license 43 for a person age [seventy] 44 sixty-five and over. $ 65.00 45 e. Lifetime trapping 46 license. $395.00A. 7082 3 1 f. Lifetime archery 2 privilege. $235.00 3 g. Lifetime muzzle- 4 loading privilege. $235.00 5 h. For transfer to a person pursuant 6 to section 11-0704 of this title $ 50.00 7 The holder of a lifetime hunting license or lifetime fishing license 8 may, at any time, convert such license to a lifetime license pursuant to 9 paragraph a of this subdivision for an additional fee equal to the 10 difference between the current fee for the new license and the fee 11 originally paid for the license. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.