Bill Text: NY A07651 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to annual vehicular access for active duty service members; requires annual passes be issued to active duty service members and their immediate families at state parks or recreational facilities upon presentation of a military identification card.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A07651 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07651-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7651
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 5, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- 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 annual vehicular access for active duty service members
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  parks,  recreation  and historic preservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new section 13.22 to read as follows:
     3    § 13.22 Annual vehicular access for active duty  service  members.  1.
     4  Notwithstanding  any  other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the
     5  office or other state agency having jurisdiction  of  a  state  park  or
     6  recreational  facility  which  has the authority to issue an annual pass
     7  for vehicular access pursuant to this article shall  issue  such  annual
     8  pass  for  vehicular  access  without  charge  to an active duty service
     9  member and his or her immediate family at any state park or recreational
    10  facility upon presentation of such active duty service member's military
    11  identification card.
    12    2. For the purposes of this  section,  "active  duty  service  member"
    13  shall mean a resident of the state who is an active member of the organ-
    14  ized  militia  of the state of New York as defined by section one of the
    15  military law.
    16    3. The office or other state agency having jurisdiction shall  promul-
    17  gate  such  rules  and  regulations as may be necessary to carry out the
    18  provisions of this section.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    21  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
    22  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    23  authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
    24  effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04797-01-7