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                                   6131
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 3, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to free
   hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to persons who  are  active  or
   reserve  duty  members  of  the Unites States armed services or of the
   organized militia, and to certain veterans thereof
 
   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 A
 FORCE 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 fishing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license;
 A PERSON, HAVING TEN OR MORE YEARS OF MILITARY  SERVICE,  WHO  HAS  BEEN
 HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM ACTIVE OR RESERVE SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATES
 ARMED  FORCES,  OR  FROM  A FORCE OF THE ORGANIZED MILITIA AS DEFINED IN
 SECTION ONE OF THE MILITARY LAW, EXCLUDING THE INACTIVE  NATIONAL  GUARD
 AND  INDIVIDUAL  READY  RESERVE, IS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE FREE OF CHARGE A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 A. 6131                             2
 
 FISHING LICENSE, A HUNTING LICENSE, AND A TRAPPING LICENSE; and a  resi-
 dent  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 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.