NY Env Conserv L § 11-0707 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 7 - Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses 11-0707 - Exemptions From Requirement of Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses.

§ 11-0707. Exemptions  from requirement of hunting, fishing and trappinglicenses.1.  Resident  owners  and  lessees  and  members  of  their  immediate   families,  actually  occupying  and cultivating farm lands, on such farm   lands and the waters thereof, shall have the right,a. to hunt wildlife except wild deer and bear,b. to trap bobcat,  coyote,  fox,  mink,  muskrat,  raccoon,  opossum,   weasel,  skunk,  and  unprotected wildlife that may lawfully be taken by   trapping (except that only the owner or lessee thereof may trap  without   license on a registered muskrat marsh) andc.  to take fish and frogs, except that they may not take bait fish by   net or trap, all as if they held the licenses defined in section 11-0701   and required by section 11-0703, subdivision 6.2. Minors under the age of sixteen may take fish and frogs as if  they   held fishing licenses, except that they may not take bait fish by net or   trap.3.  Any  person  who  is  a  patient  at  any  facility  in this state   maintained by the United States Veterans Health Administration or at any   hospital or sanitorium for treatment of tuberculosis maintained  by  the   state  or  any  municipal corporation thereof or resident patient at any   institution of the department of Mental Hygiene, or resident patient  at   the  rehabilitation hospital of the department of Health, or at any rest   camp maintained by the state through the Division of Veterans'  Services   in  the  Executive  Department  or  any  incarcerated  individual  of  a   conservation work camp within the youth rehabilitation facility  of  the   department of corrections and community supervision, or any incarcerated   individual  of a youth opportunity or youth rehabilitation center within   the Office of Children and Family Services, any resident  of  a  nursing   home  or residential health care facility as defined in subdivisions two   and three of section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health  law,   or  any  staff member or volunteer accompanying or assisting one or more   residents of such nursing home or residential health care facility on an   outing  authorized  by  the  administrator  of  such  nursing  home   or   residential  health  care  facility may take fish as if he or she held a   fishing license, except that he or she may not take bait fish by net  or   trap, if he or she has on his or her person an authorization upon a form   furnished  by the department containing such identifying information and   data as may be required by it, and signed by the superintendent or other   head of such facility, institution, hospital, sanitarium, nursing  home,   residential health care facility or rest camp, as the case may be, or by   a staff physician thereat duly authorized so to do by the superintendent   or  other  head thereof. Such authorization with respect to incarcerated   individuals of said conservation work camps shall be  limited  to  areas   under the care, custody and control of the department.4.  If persons holding fishing licenses issued under the New York Fish   and Wildlife Law are not required to have licenses  issued  by  a  state   named in paragraph a, b, c or d of this subdivision when fishing in that   part  of the waters, specified in such paragraph, which lies within that   state, then, in such case, a person holding a fishing license issued  by   such  state  may,  without  a  fishing license issued under the New York   State Fish and Wildlife Law, take fish as provided  in  title  13,  from   that  part of such waters specified in paragraph a, b, c or d which lies   within this state:a. License issued by  Vermont:  that  part  of  Lake  Champlain  lying   between New York and Vermont;b.  License  issued  by  Pennsylvania: that part of the Delaware River   lying between New York and Pennsylvania; c. License issued by Connecticut: those parts of Indian Lake,  and  of   Samuel  Bargh  Reservoir  (Mianus  Reservoir) lying between New York and   Connecticut;d.  License  issued  by  New Jersey: that part of Greenwood Lake lying   between New York and New Jersey.7. The owner or lessee of a  registered  muskrat  marsh  may,  without   license,  trap  muskrat,  bobcat,  coyote,  fox, mink, raccoon, opossum,   weasel, skunk,  and  unprotected  wildlife  permitted  to  be  taken  by   trapping, on such registered muskrat marsh.8.  The  enrolled  members  of  an  Indian  tribe having a reservation   located wholly or partly within the state and such other Indians as  are   permitted  by  the  tribal  government  having  jurisdiction  over  such   reservation may hunt, fish, trap upon such reservation subject  only  to   rules,  regulations  and  fish  and  wildlife  laws  established  by the   governing body of such reservation. Before fish and  wildlife  taken  on   reservations  by  Indians  shall  be  transported  or  possessed off the   reservation it shall be tagged for identification purposes in  a  manner   to  be  required  by  the  governing  body  of  such  reservation.  This   subdivision shall in no way  limit  or  otherwise  impair  the  existing   powers  of  any  tribal  government  to  regulate  hunting,  fishing and   trapping and/or to issue licenses for same.9. A minor under the age of twelve may accompany and assist a licensed   trapper who is the minor's parent or legal guardian or who is  a  person   eighteen  years  of  age  or  older designated in writing by the minor's   parent or legal guardian on a form prescribed by the department and such   parent, legal guardian or designee has  had  at  least  three  years  of   trapping  experience.  Such  minor  may assist the licensed adult in all   aspects of trapping without possessing a trapping license.