STATE OF NEW YORK
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268
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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
providing free lifetime licenses for honorably discharged, disabled
veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 11-0702 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by section 16 of part R of chapter 58 of
3 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. There are hereby created the following lifetime hunting, fishing,
5 trapping, archery and muzzle-loading privileges and fees therefor
6 subject to the same privileges and obligations of a comparable short
7 term license:
8 Licenses Fees
9 a. Lifetime license including a
10 hunting license, fishing license
11 and turkey permit. If purchased,
12 for a child four years
13 of age or younger $380.00
14 for a child age five through
15 eleven years of age $535.00
16 for a person age twelve through
17 sixty-nine years of age $765.00
18 for a person age seventy
19 and over[.] $65.00
20 for a person who has been
21 honorably discharged from
22 service in the armed forces of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 United States and is certified
2 as having a forty percent or
3 greater service-connected disability.$0.00
4 b. Lifetime hunting license. $535.00
5 c. Lifetime fishing
6 license for a person age
7 sixty-nine or younger. $460.00
8 d. Lifetime fishing license
9 for a person age seventy
10 and over. $ 65.00
11 e. Lifetime trapping
12 license. $395.00
13 f. Lifetime archery privilege. $235.00
14 g. Lifetime muzzle-loading privilege. $235.00
15 h. For transfer to a person pursuant
16 to section 11-0704 of this title.
17 $50.00
18 The holder of a lifetime hunting license or lifetime fishing license
19 may, at any time, convert such license to a lifetime license pursuant to
20 paragraph a of this subdivision for an additional fee equal to the
21 difference between the current fee for the new license and the fee
22 originally paid for the license.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
