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                                 3029--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 2, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sens.  FUNKE,  NOZZOLIO, ORTT, RITCHIE -- 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 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:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  11-0715 of the environmental
conservation law, as amended by section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the
laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  2. A member of the Shinnecock tribe  or  the  Poospatuck  tribe  or  a
member  of the six nations, residing on any reservation wholly or partly
within the state, is entitled  to  receive  free  of  charge  a  fishing
license,  a  hunting  license,  a  muzzle-loading  privilege, a trapping
license, and a bowhunting privilege; a [resident of the state who is  a]
member  of  the  United States armed forces in active service who is not
stationed within the state and has not been herein  longer  than  thirty
days on leave or furlough, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
ing  license,  a hunting license, and a trapping license; [a resident of
the state who is] an active member of the organized militia of the state
of New York as defined by section  one  of  the  military  law,  or  the
reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, and exclud-
ing members of the inactive national guard and individual ready reserve,
is  entitled  to  receive  free  of  charge a fishing license, a hunting
license, and a trapping license; and a resident who is blind is entitled
to receive a fishing license free of charge. For the  purposes  of  this
subdivision  a  person  is  blind only if either: (a) his or her central
visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye  with  correcting

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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lenses,  or  (b)  his or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is
accompanied by a limitation of the field of vision such that the  widest
diameter  of  the  visual  field  subtends  an  angle no greater than 20
degrees.
  A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
tled  to  receive  a  fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
  A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately  prior
to  the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
ing privilege.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.