Bill Text: NY S00176 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit while seeking assistance, except in the case of gross negligence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S00176 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00176-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           176

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. GIANARIS, BRESLIN, PARKER -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Judici-
          ary

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general obligations law, in relation to granting
          immunity from liability for personal injury, death or property  damage
          incurred  by  a  victim  of  a crime while seeking assistance upon the
          premises of a business entity or not-for-profit corporation

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

     1    Section 1.  Section 9-103 of the general obligations law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  an owner, lessee or occupant of a premises, which is operated as
     4  a business entity or not-for-profit corporation, who provides assistance
     5  to a victim of a crime by allowing such victim to remain upon such prem-
     6  ises for the purpose of summoning  a  police  officer  and/or  emergency
     7  medical personnel, shall assume no responsibility for or incur liability
     8  for any personal injury, death or property damage sustained by the crime
     9  victim  while  upon  such  premises in the course of seeking assistance,
    10  unless it is established that such injury or death was caused  by  gross
    11  negligence  on the part of such business entity or not-for-profit corpo-
    12  ration.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01966-01-3