Bill Text: NY S01429 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the liability of landowners who permit recreational uses of their land; establishes landowners owe no duty to keep premises safe for entry, passage over premises or other recreational uses or to give warning of any hazardous condition of use of or structure or activity on such premises to persons entering for such purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01429 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01429-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1429
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
        AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to the  liabil-
          ity of landowners who permit recreational uses
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 9-103 of the gener-
     2  al obligations law, as separately amended by chapters 141 and 286 of the
     3  laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a. an owner, lessee or occupant of premises, whether or not posted  as
     5  provided  in section 11-2111 of the environmental conservation law, owes
     6  no duty: (1) to keep the premises safe for entry, passage over  premises
     7  or  use by others for hunting, fishing, organized gleaning as defined in
     8  section seventy-one-y of the  agriculture  and  markets  law,  canoeing,
     9  boating,  trapping, hiking, cross-country skiing, tobogganing, sledding,
    10  speleological activities, horseback riding, bicycle riding,  hang  glid-
    11  ing,  motorized  vehicle operation for recreational purposes, snowmobile
    12  operation, cutting or gathering  of  wood  for  non-commercial  purposes
    13  [or],  training  of dogs, and any other recreational use; or (2) to give
    14  warning of any hazardous condition or use of or structure or activity on
    15  such premises to persons entering for such purposes;
    16    § 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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