Bill Text: NY A04344 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; removes certain residency requirements for members of certain tribes and of the armed forces and organized militia.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to environmental conservation [A04344 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04344-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4344

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to resi-
          dency requirements for free 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  part-
     6  ly]  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
    23  accompanied  by a limitation of the field of vision such that the widest
    24  diameter of the visual field  subtends  an  angle  no  greater  than  20
    25  degrees.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08697-01-1
        A. 4344                             2

     1    A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
     2  to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
     3  tled  to  receive  a  fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
     4  license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
     5    A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
     6  to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
     7  tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
     8  ing privilege.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2022.