Sec. 26-29. Free lifetime fishing license for person who is blind.
Sec. 26-142d. Dual-landing agreements for Winter I Summer Flounder.
Sec. 26-29. Free lifetime fishing license for person who is blind. No fee shall be charged for any sport fishing license issued under this chapter to any person who is blind, and such license shall be a lifetime license not subject to the expiration provisions of section 26-35. Proof of such blindness shall be furnished, in the case of a veteran, by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and, in the case of any other person, by the Department of Aging and Disability Services. For the purpose of this section, a person shall be blind only if his or her central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or if his or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees.
(1955, S. 2471d; 1957, P.A. 321, S. 1; P.A. 07-133, S. 3; P.A. 11-44, S. 30; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 82; P.A. 17-202, S. 77; P.A. 18-72, S. 30; P.A. 19-157, S. 81.)
History: P.A. 07-133 added provision making license a lifetime license, effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 11-44 replaced “State Board of Education of the Blind” with “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services”, effective July 1, 2011; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 replaced “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” with “Department of Rehabilitation Services”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 17-202 replaced “blind person” with “person who is blind” and made technical changes; P.A. 18-72 replaced “Veterans' Administration” with “Department of Veterans Affairs”; P.A. 19-157 replaced “Department of Rehabilitation Services” with “Department of Aging and Disability Services”.
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Sec. 26-142d. Dual-landing agreements for Winter I Summer Flounder. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall enter into an agreement with the state of Rhode Island, the state of New York or both, to provide for a dual-landing agreement that authorizes commercial fishermen who are licensed in this state and Rhode Island or New York, as applicable, to take fish from state and federal waters in an amount that exceeds such commercial fisherman's daily limit in an agreement state but not more than the total daily limit for such commercial fisherman among the states that are a party to such agreement. Such agreement shall be limited to the Winter I Summer Flounder season. Pursuant to such agreement, such commercial fisherman shall separate such take by the daily limits allowed in each such state and complete any such landing in each state by the hour specified in such agreement. Any such agreement shall allow for such agreement to be extended to commercial fishermen licensed in this state and any other state with which Connecticut shares either a water or land boundary. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection may board the vessel of any commercial fisherman who makes a take pursuant to such an agreement in order to inspect for compliance with the terms of any such agreement.
(P.A. 19-28, S. 1.)
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