STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8655 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY September 1, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. M. L. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law and the executive law, in relation to providing beach access routes for mobility impaired persons The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The parks, recreation and historic preservation law is 2 amended by adding a new section 13.33 to read as follows: 3 § 13.33 Access routes for mobility impaired persons to state beaches. 4 1. Beach areas operated by the office shall include beach access routes 5 provided for mobility impaired persons connecting the entry point of the 6 beach to the: 7 (a) median high tide level at tidal beaches; 8 (b) mean high water level at river beaches; or 9 (c) normal recreation water level at lake, pond, and reservoir beach- 10 es. 11 2. Such access routes may be provided by means of mats, of no less 12 than five feet in width, or by such other equally effective system as 13 may be determined to be more suitable by the office. Access routes are 14 to have a slope of no more than ten percent, and are to include rest 15 areas of at least five feet square at appropriate intervals as deter- 16 mined by the office. 17 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 296 of the executive 18 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows: 19 (vi) (A) where such person is a local or state government entity, a 20 refusal to ensure that access routes are provided for mobility impaired 21 persons from the entry point of the beach open to the: 22 (1) median high tide level at tidal beaches; 23 (2) mean high water level at river beaches; or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13318-01-7A. 8655 2 1 (3) normal recreation water level at lake, pond, and reservoir beach- 2 es. 3 (B) Such access routes may be provided by means of mats, of no less 4 than five feet in width, or by such other equally effective system as 5 may be determined to be more suitable by the office of parks, recreation 6 and historic preservation. Access routes are to have a slope of no more 7 than ten percent, and are to include rest areas of at least five feet 8 square at appropriate intervals as determined by such office. 9 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 10 it shall have become a law; provided that any rules and regulations 11 necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date 12 are authorized and directed to be promulgated and shall become effective 13 on such date.