STATE OF NEW YORK
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2544
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, COOK, GOODELL, FRIEND, BRABENEC,
LEMONDES -- 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.
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