Bill Text: NY A01703 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends provisions relating to the liability of landowners who permit recreational uses of their land; provides that landowners owe no duty to keep premises safe for entry, passage or other recreational uses or to give warning of any hazardous condition, structure or activity on such premises to persons entering for such purposes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to judiciary [A01703 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01703-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1703
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Judiciary
       AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to the  liabil-
         ity of landowners who permit recreational uses
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 9-103 of the gener-
    2  al obligations law, as separately amended by chapters 141 and 286 of the
    3  laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
    4    a. an owner, lessee or occupant of premises, whether or not posted  as
    5  provided  in section 11-2111 of the environmental conservation law, owes
    6  no duty: (1) to keep the premises safe for entry, PASSAGE OVER  PREMISES
    7  or  use by others for hunting, fishing, organized gleaning as defined in
    8  section seventy-one-y of the  agriculture  and  markets  law,  canoeing,
    9  boating,  trapping, hiking, cross-country skiing, tobogganing, sledding,
   10  speleological activities, horseback riding, bicycle riding,  hang  glid-
   11  ing,  motorized  vehicle operation for recreational purposes, snowmobile
   12  operation, cutting or gathering  of  wood  for  non-commercial  purposes
   13  [or],  training  of dogs, AND ANY OTHER RECREATIONAL USE; or (2) to give
   14  warning of any hazardous condition or use of or structure or activity on
   15  such premises to persons entering for such purposes;
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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