2023 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 trapping
licenses.
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) and
c.  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  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.