Bill Text: NY S01040 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to fees for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; provides free fishing, hunting and trapping licenses for certain members of the military.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S01040 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01040-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1040
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens. FUNKE, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Veterans,  Homeland
          Security and Military Affairs
        AN  ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to fees
          for 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 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 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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1040                             2
     1  diameter  of  the  visual  field  subtends  an  angle no greater than 20
     2  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.