Bill Text: NY A00201 | 2021-2022 | 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 or use of or structure or activity on such premises to persons entering for such purposes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to judiciary [A00201 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00201-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           201

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, COOK, GOODELL, MONTESANO, FRIEND, BRABE-
          NEC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, HAWLEY -- read once and
          referred 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.
                                                                   LBD02431-01-1