2022 New York Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife
Title 7 - Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses
11-0704 - Transfer of a Lifetime License.

§ 11-0704. Transfer of a lifetime license.
A  lifetime  license, as provided in section 11-0702 of this title, is
  not transferable to any person unless:
1. the person to whom such license and permit was issued  dies  within
  one year of the issuance date of such license and permit; and
2.  the person to whom such license and permit is to be transferred is
  a legal resident of this state pursuant to this title; and
3. the person to whom such license and permit  is  to  be  transferred
  would otherwise be eligible to purchase such license and permit; and
4.  the person to whom such license is to be transferred is related to
  the person to whom such license  was  issued  by  the  first  degree  of
  consanguinity, or legal marriage to such person, or is the adopted child
  or step child or step sibling of such person; and
5.   designation  is  made  by  the  personal  representative  of  the
  decedent's estate; and
6. The application for transfer is made  within  three  years  of  the
  issuance of the license; and
7.  the person to whom such license and permit is transferred pays the
  fee as set forth in section 11-0702 of this title; and
8. such license and permit has not been previously transferred.
Provided, however, that  subdivisions  one,  six  and  seven  of  this
  section  shall not apply when the person to whom such license was issued
  was a member of the armed forces of the United States or a member of the
  national guard or other reserve component of the  armed  forces  of  the
  United  States  who  died in combat zone or combat zone of operations or
  while deployed for active military duty,  other  than  training,  on  or
  after the eleventh day of September, two thousand one.