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                                   2507
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2025
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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 SUCH INDIVIDUAL 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 trap-
 ping  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 A. 2507                             2
 
 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] THEIR central visual acuity does not
 exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or (b)  [his  or
 her]  THEIR 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.