Bill Text: NY A07214 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Excludes programs run by a town, village, or other governmental entity from the definition of summer day camp for the year 2011.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to health [A07214 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07214-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7214--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 19, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. RUSSELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PALMES-
         ANO  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to excluding  certain
         programs from the definition of summer day camp for the year 2011
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1392 of the public health law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  439  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of  a  tract  of
    5  land  and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be
    6  pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied on  a  scheduled
    7  basis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year
    8  by  children  under  sixteen years of age under general supervision, for
    9  the purpose of indoor or outdoor organized group  activities,  involving
   10  nonpassive  recreational  activities with significant risk of injury, as
   11  such activities are defined by the department in rules and  regulations,
   12  for  a  period of less than twenty-four hours on any day the property is
   13  so occupied, and on which no provisions are made for overnight occupancy
   14  by such children; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  SUMMER  DAY  CAMP  SHALL  NOT
   15  INCLUDE ANY SUMMER DAY CAMP RUN BY A TOWN, VILLAGE OR OTHER GOVERNMENTAL
   16  ENTITY  IN  THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN UNLESS SUCH SUMMER DAY CAMP HAD
   17  BEEN PERMITTED ACCORDINGLY BY THE DEPARTMENT AND DEEMED TO BE  A  SUMMER
   18  DAY  CAMP  PRIOR  TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN.  The commissioner
   19  shall have the power to except by rule from this article and  the  sani-
   20  tary code a place, facility or activity that is not within the intent of
   21  this definition.
   22    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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