Bill Text: NY A03656 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; removes certain residency requirements for members of certain tribes and of the armed forces and organized militia.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A03656 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03656-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3656
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to resi-
          dency requirements for free 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 part-
     6  ly] 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
    24  diameter  of  the  visual  field  subtends  an  angle no greater than 20
    25  degrees.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07663-01-9
        A. 3656                             2
     1    A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately  prior
     2  to  the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
     3  tled to receive a fishing license, a trapping  license,  and  a  hunting
     4  license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
     5    A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
     6  to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
     7  tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
     8  ing privilege.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2020.