Bill Text: NY A03600 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Provides that there is no duty to keep premises safe for persons engaging in noncommercial aviation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A03600 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03600-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3600

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. MANKTELOW, GALLAHAN, SMULLEN, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN  ACT  to amend the general obligations law, in relation to noncommer-
          cial aviation

          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  to keep the premises safe for entry or use by others for hunt-
     7  ing, fishing, organized gleaning as defined in section seventy-one-y  of
     8  the  agriculture  and  markets law, canoeing, boating, trapping, hiking,
     9  cross-country skiing, tobogganing, sledding,  speleological  activities,
    10  horseback riding, bicycle riding, hang gliding, motorized vehicle opera-
    11  tion for recreational purposes, snowmobile operation, cutting or gather-
    12  ing  of wood for non-commercial purposes or training of dogs, noncommer-
    13  cial aviation, or to give warning of any hazardous condition or  use  of
    14  or  structure  or activity on such premises to persons entering for such
    15  purposes;
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05029-01-3