Bill Text: NY A05532 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that mentally disabled patient residents of a facility operated by a not-for-profit corporation may fish without a license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to environmental conservation [A05532 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05532-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5532
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 23, 2011
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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
         authorizing  developmentally  disabled  residents  of a not-for-profit
         facility to fish without a license
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  11-0707 of the environmental
    2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 319 of  the  laws  of  2003,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    3.  Any  person  who  is a patient at any facility in this state main-
    5  tained by the United States Veterans' Administration or at any  hospital
    6  or  sanitorium  for treatment of tuberculosis maintained by the state or
    7  any municipal corporation thereof or resident patient at any institution
    8  of the department of Mental Hygiene, OR RESIDENT PATIENT WHO IS DEVELOP-
    9  MENTALLY DISABLED, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1.03 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW,
   10  AT A FACILITY OPERATED BY A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION WHEN SUCH FACILI-
   11  TY IS CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE  WITH  DEVELOPMENTAL  DISABILI-
   12  TIES,  or resident patient at the rehabilitation hospital of the depart-
   13  ment of Health, or at any rest camp maintained by the state through  the
   14  Division  of Veterans' Affairs in the Executive Department or any inmate
   15  of a conservation work camp within the youth rehabilitation facility  of
   16  the  department  of  correction, or any inmate of a youth opportunity or
   17  youth rehabilitation center within the Office  of  Children  and  Family
   18  Services,  any  resident  of  a  nursing home or residential health care
   19  facility as defined in subdivisions two and  three  of  section  twenty-
   20  eight  hundred  one  of  the  public  health law, or any staff member or
   21  volunteer accompanying or assisting one or more residents of such  nurs-
   22  ing  home or residential health care facility on an outing authorized by
   23  the administrator of such nursing home or residential health care facil-
   24  ity may take fish as if he OR SHE held a fishing license, except that he
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09138-01-1
       A. 5532                             2
    1  OR SHE may not take bait fish by net or trap, if he OR SHE has on his OR
    2  HER person an authorization upon a  form  furnished  by  the  department
    3  containing  such  identifying information and data as may be required by
    4  it,  and  signed  by  the superintendent or other head of such facility,
    5  institution, hospital, sanitarium, nursing home, residential health care
    6  facility or rest camp, as the case may be, or by a staff physician ther-
    7  eat duly authorized so to do by the superintendent or other head  there-
    8  of. Such authorization with respect to inmates of said conservation work
    9  camps  shall  be limited to areas under the care, custody and control of
   10  the department.
   11    S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
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