Sec. 26-29. Free lifetime fishing licenses for blind persons.
Sec. 26-29. Free lifetime fishing licenses for blind persons. No fee shall be
charged for any sport fishing license issued under this chapter to any blind person, 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 Veterans' Administration and, in the case of any other person, by the State Board
of Education of the Blind. For the purpose of this section, a person shall be blind only
if his central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting
lenses, or if his 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.)
History: P.A. 07-133 added provision making license a lifetime license, effective July 1, 2007.