Bill Text: NY S06159 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires every golf course to make available at least one functional cardiac defibrillator and requires that employees of such facility be trained in its proper operation and use.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-07 - PRINT NUMBER 6159A [S06159 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S06159-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6159--A
I N S E N A T E
January 9, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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 requiring golf
course operators to make available at least one functional cardiac
defibrillator and requiring that employees of such facilities be
trained in its proper operation and use
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 3000-e to read as follows:
3 S 3000-E. FUNCTIONAL CARDIAC DEFIBRILLATOR AT GOLF COURSE. 1. FOR THE
4 PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL BE DEFINED AS
5 FOLLOWS:
6 A. "GOLF COURSE" MEANS AN AREA OF LAND LAID OUT FOR GOLF WITH A SERIES
7 OF NINE OR EIGHTEEN HOLES EACH INCLUDING TEE, FAIRWAY, AND PUTTING
8 GREEN.
9 B. "GOLF COURSE OPERATOR" MEANS ANY PERSON, FIRM, CORPORATION, PART-
10 NERSHIP, UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OR OTHER ENTITY, WHETHER PUBLICLY OR
11 PRIVATELY OWNED OR OPERATED, THAT MANAGES ANY GOLF COURSE.
12 2. GOLF COURSE OPERATORS SHALL PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON-SITE AUTOMATED
13 EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS (AED), AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVI-
14 SION ONE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND-B OF THIS ARTICLE, IN QUANTITIES AND
15 TYPES DEEMED BY THE COMMISSIONER TO BE ADEQUATE TO ENSURE READY AND
16 APPROPRIATE ACCESS FOR USE DURING EMERGENCIES.
17 3. EVERY GOLF COURSE OPERATOR SHALL HAVE IN ATTENDANCE, AT ALL TIMES
18 DURING STAFFED BUSINESS HOURS, AT LEAST ONE INDIVIDUAL PERFORMING
19 EMPLOYMENT OR INDIVIDUAL ACTING AS AN AUTHORIZED VOLUNTEER WHO IS
20 TRAINED, PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THREE
21 THOUSAND-B OF THIS ARTICLE, IN THE OPERATION AND USE OF AN AED.
22 4. GOLF COURSE OPERATORS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS AND
23 LIMITATIONS OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND-B OF THIS ARTICLE.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 5. ANY GOLF COURSE OPERATOR, HIS OR HER EMPLOYEE OR OTHER AGENT, OR
2 ANY PERSON WHO VOLUNTARILY AND WITHOUT EXPECTATION OF MONETARY COMPEN-
3 SATION RENDERS EMERGENCY TREATMENT USING SUCH DEFIBRILLATOR PURSUANT TO
4 THIS SECTION, TO A PERSON WHO IS UNCONSCIOUS, ILL OR INJURED, SHALL ONLY
5 BE LIABLE PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE THOUSAND-A OF THIS ARTICLE.
6 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
7 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that effective immediate-
8 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations
9 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
10 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
11 effective date.
