Bill Text: NY S00665 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 665 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the operation of all-terrain vehicles on school grounds, and baseball, football and soccer fields, without the permission of the owner thereof, provided that the owner or lessee has erected "No Trespassing" signs thereon.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00665 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00665-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 12, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  opera-
         tion of an all-terrain vehicle on school grounds
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 2403 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
    2  adding a new subdivision 3-b to read as follows:
    3    3-B.  SCHOOL  GROUNDS.  (A)  NO  PERSON SHALL OPERATE AN ATV ON SCHOOL
    4  GROUNDS, OR ON ANY  BASEBALL,  FOOTBALL  OR  SOCCER  FIELD  WITHOUT  THE
    5  CONSENT  OF  THE OWNER OR LESSEE THEREOF, WHERE SUCH OWNER OR LESSEE HAS
    6  ERECTED OR MAINTAINED ANY SIGN, STRUCTURE, DISPLAY OR DEVICE PROHIBITING
    7  THE TRESPASS THEREON, AND WHICH SHALL INCLUDE A SIGN STATING: "NO  TRES-
    8  PASSING".  A VIOLATION OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE A TRAFFIC INFRACTION
    9  AND SHALL UPON A CONVICTION OF A FIRST VIOLATION BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE
   10  OF  NOT  MORE  THAN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS OR BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT
   11  MORE THAN FIFTEEN DAYS OR BY BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT; AND UPON A
   12  CONVICTION OF A SECOND VIOLATION, BOTH OF WHICH WERE COMMITTED WITHIN  A
   13  PERIOD  OF  EIGHTEEN  MONTHS,  SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF NOT MORE
   14  THAN  FOUR  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  OR  BY  IMPRISONMENT  FOR  NOT  MORE  THAN
   15  FORTY-FIVE  DAYS  OR  BY  BOTH  SUCH  FINE  AND IMPRISONMENT; AND UPON A
   16  CONVICTION OF A THIRD OR SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION, ALL OF WHICH WERE COMMIT-
   17  TED WITHIN A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS, SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF
   18  NOT MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS OR BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE
   19  THAN NINETY DAYS OR BY BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
   20    (B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "SCHOOL GROUNDS" SHALL  MEAN
   21  ANY ATHLETIC PLAYING FIELD, PLAYGROUND OR LAND CONTAINED WITHIN THE REAL
   22  PROPERTY  BOUNDARY  LINE OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY OR
   23  VOCATIONAL SCHOOL.
   24    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   25  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05415-01-9