Bill Text: NY A04401 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides free use of state parks and campsites for volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance service.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A04401 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04401-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4401

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 14, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. MORINELLO, NORRIS, SAYEGH, DeSTEFANO, BRABENEC,
          MILLER, DiPIETRO, HAWLEY, TAGUE --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
          relation to providing free use of state parks for volunteer firefight-
          ers and volunteer ambulance personnel

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 13.19 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
     2  vation law, as amended by chapter 649 of the laws of 1977, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    §  13.19  Free  use  of  parks  and  campsites.    Notwithstanding the
     5  provisions of any other law, any person who is blind, non-ambulatory, or
     6  an amputee or any veteran of the wars of the United States, who  has  at
     7  any time been awarded by the federal government an allowance towards the
     8  purchase  of  an  automobile  or  is  eligible for such an award; or any
     9  person who is a resident of New York  state  and  serves  as  an  active
    10  volunteer  firefighter, as defined in section two hundred fifteen of the
    11  general municipal law, or as an enrolled member of a volunteer ambulance
    12  service pursuant to article thirty of the public  health  law  shall  be
    13  permitted  to  use  any  of the public campsites, parks and other public
    14  places of recreation in this state, upon the same terms  and  conditions
    15  as  apply  to the general public, but without the payment of any fees or
    16  other charges for the use of such  campsites,  parks  and  other  public
    17  places of recreation.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    20  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    21  tation of this act on its effective date is authorized and  directed  to
    22  be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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