Bill Text: NY A05679 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the issuance of free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to members of the Seneca nation who reside in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A05679 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05679-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5679
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. GIGLIO, LAWRENCE, B. MILLER, MORINELLO -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          issuance  of free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to members of
          the Seneca nation
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section
     2  11-0703 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by  section  2
     3  of  part  R  of  chapter  58  of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    (2) Indian residents or members of the six  nations  residing  on  any
     6  reservation wholly or partly within the state, and members of the Seneca
     7  nation residing within the state; and
     8    §  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 11-0715 of the environmental conserva-
     9  tion law, as amended by section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the laws of
    10  2013, is amended to read as follows:
    11    2. A member of the Shinnecock tribe  or  the  Poospatuck  tribe  or  a
    12  member  of the six nations, residing on any reservation wholly or partly
    13  within the state, or a member of the Seneca nation residing  within  the
    14  state,  is entitled to receive free of charge a fishing license, a hunt-
    15  ing license, a muzzle-loading  privilege,  a  trapping  license,  and  a
    16  bowhunting  privilege;  a  resident  of the state who is a member of the
    17  United States armed forces in active service who is not stationed within
    18  the state and has not been herein longer than thirty days  on  leave  or
    19  furlough,  is  entitled  to  receive free of charge a fishing license, a
    20  hunting license, and a trapping license; a resident of the state who  is
    21  an  active  member  of the organized militia of the state of New York as
    22  defined by section one of the military law, or the reserve components of
    23  the armed forces of the United States,  and  excluding  members  of  the
    24  inactive  national  guard  and  individual ready reserve, is entitled to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 5679                             2
     1  receive free of charge a fishing license, a hunting license, and a trap-
     2  ping license; and a resident who is blind is entitled to receive a fish-
     3  ing license free of charge. For  the  purposes  of  this  subdivision  a
     4  person  is  blind  only  if either: (a) his or her central visual acuity
     5  does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or  (b)
     6  his  or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a
     7  limitation of the field of vision such that the widest diameter  of  the
     8  visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees.
     9    A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
    10  to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
    11  tled  to  receive  a  fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
    12  license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
    13    A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately  prior
    14  to  the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
    15  tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
    16  ing privilege.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.