Bill Text: AZ SB1387 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Engrossed


Bill Title: Recreational user immunity; access

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-04-02 - House Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass [SB1387 Detail]

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Senate Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

First Regular Session

2015

 

 

SENATE BILL 1387

 

 

 

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:

START_STATUTE33-1551.  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 on a showing that the owner, easement holder, lessee, tenant, manager or occupant was guilty of wilful, malicious or grossly negligent conduct that was a direct cause of the injury to the recreational or educational user.

B.  This section does not limit the liability 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.  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 premises to participate in an educational program, including the viewing of historical, natural, archaeological or scientific sites.  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.  "Park" includes outdoor school grounds that are open to recreational users, excluding swimming pools and other aquatic features.

4.  "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, that are available to a recreational or educational user, including paved or unpaved 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.

5.  "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 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 other outdoor recreational pursuits.  The purchase of a state hunting, trapping or fishing license, an off‑highway vehicle user indicia or a state trust land recreational permit or payment by an agency of this state to an owner, easement holder or lessee for public recreational access to the premises 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. Recreational user does not include a student who is registered at a school during designated times that the student is allowed to be on the school grounds as determined by district personnel or who is participating in a school‑sanctioned activity.

6.  "School" has the same meaning prescribed in section 15‑101. END_STATUTE

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