Bill Text: AZ SB1229 | 2011 | Fiftieth Legislature 1st Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Recreational users; landowner liability
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-04-14 - Governor Signed [SB1229 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2011-SB1229-Engrossed.html
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House Engrossed Senate Bill |
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State of Arizona Senate Fiftieth Legislature First Regular Session 2011
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SENATE BILL 1229 |
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AN ACT
amending section 33-1551, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to liabilities and duties on property used for education and recreation.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 33-1551, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
33-1551. Duty of owner, lessee or occupant of premises to recreational or educational users; liability; definitions
A. A public or private owner, easement holder, lessee, tenant, manager or occupant of premises is not liable to a recreational or educational user except upon on a showing that the owner, easement holder, lessee, tenant, manager or occupant was guilty of wilful, malicious or grossly negligent conduct which that was a direct cause of the injury to the recreational or educational user.
B. This section does not limit the liability which that otherwise exists for maintaining an attractive nuisance, except with respect to dams, channels, canals and lateral ditches used for flood control, agricultural, industrial, metallurgical or municipal purposes.
C. As used in For the purposes of this section:
1. "Educational user" means a person to whom permission has been granted or implied without the payment of an admission fee or any other consideration to enter upon premises to participate in an educational program, including but not limited to, the viewing of historical, natural, archaeological or scientific sights. A nominal fee that is charged by a public entity or a nonprofit corporation to offset the cost of providing the educational or recreational premises and associated services does not constitute an admission fee or any other consideration as prescribed by this section.
2. "Grossly negligent" means a knowing or reckless indifference to the health and safety of others.
3. "Premises" means agricultural, range, open space, park, flood control, mining, forest, water delivery, water drainage or railroad lands, and any other similar lands, wherever located, which that are available to a recreational or educational user, including, but not limited to, paved or unpaved multi‑use multiuse trails and special purpose roads or trails not open to automotive use by the public and any building, improvement, fixture, water conveyance system, body of water, channel, canal or lateral, road, trail or structure on such lands.
4. "Recreational user" means a person to whom permission has been granted or implied without the payment of an admission fee or any other consideration to travel across or to enter upon premises to hunt, fish, trap, camp, hike, ride, engage in off-highway vehicle, off‑road recreational motor vehicle or all-terrain vehicle activity, operate aircraft, exercise, swim or engage in similar outdoor recreational pursuits. The purchase of a state hunting, trapping or fishing license, off‑highway vehicle user indicia or a state trust land recreational permit is not the payment of an admission fee or any other consideration as provided in this section. A nominal fee that is charged by a public entity or a nonprofit corporation to offset the cost of providing the educational or recreational premises and associated services does not constitute an admission fee or any other consideration as prescribed by this section.
