STATE OF NEW YORK
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1102--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. MAZIARZ, LITTLE, SEWARD, ZELDIN -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on Environ-
mental Conservation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to waiv-
ing certain fishing and hunting fees for members of the United States
armed forces in active service
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
12 fishing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; a resident
13 of the state who is an active member of the organized militia of the
14 state 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 subdivision a person is blind only if either: (a) his or her central
2 visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting
3 lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is
4 accompanied by a limitation of the field of vision such that the widest
5 diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20
6 degrees.
7 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
8 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
9 tled to receive a fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
10 license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
11 A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
12 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
13 tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
14 ing privilege.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
16 manner as section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the laws of 2013, takes
17 effect.
