Bill Text: NY A04991 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to residents of the state who are active duty members of the U.S. armed forces regardless of where such person is stationed.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-31 - held for consideration in environmental conservation [A04991 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04991-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4991
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN  ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to free
          hunting, fishing and trapping licenses  to  state  residents  who  are
          active duty members of the United States armed services
          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 the
    14  organized  militia of the state of New York as defined by section one of
    15  the military law, or the reserve components of the armed forces  of  the
    16  United  States, and excluding members of the inactive national guard and
    17  individual ready reserve, is entitled to receive free of charge a  fish-
    18  ing  license,  a hunting license, and a trapping license; and a resident
    19  who is blind is entitled to receive a fishing license  free  of  charge.
    20  For  the  purposes of this subdivision a person is blind only if either:
    21  (a) his or her central visual acuity  does  not  exceed  20/200  in  the
    22  better  eye  with  correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity is
    23  greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation of the  field  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05882-01-7
        A. 4991                             2
     1  vision  such  that  the  widest diameter of the visual field subtends an
     2  angle no greater than 20 degrees.
     3    A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
     4  to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
     5  tled  to  receive  a  fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
     6  license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
     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 free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
    10  ing privilege.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.