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                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             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:
 
   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]
 REGARDLESS OF WHERE HE OR SHE IS 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 fishing 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 excluding members of the inactive national guard and
 individual ready reserve, is entitled to receive free of charge a  fish-
 ing  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 lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity is
 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.
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 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.