Bill Text: NY S02481 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit while seeking assistance, except in the case of gross negligence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S02481 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02481-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2481
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 23, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sens. GIANARIS, AVELLA, BRESLIN, DILAN, HASSELL-THOMPSON,
         MONTGOMERY, PARKER, PERKINS -- 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 granting
         immunity from liability for personal injury, death or property  damage
         incurred  by  a  victim  of  a crime while seeking assistance upon the
         premises of a business entity or not-for-profit corporation
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Section 9-103 of the general obligations law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A.  AN OWNER, LESSEE OR OCCUPANT OF A PREMISES, WHICH IS OPERATED AS
    4  A BUSINESS ENTITY OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, WHO PROVIDES ASSISTANCE
    5  TO A VICTIM OF A CRIME BY ALLOWING SUCH VICTIM TO REMAIN UPON SUCH PREM-
    6  ISES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUMMONING  A  POLICE  OFFICER  AND/OR  EMERGENCY
    7  MEDICAL PERSONNEL, SHALL ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR OR INCUR LIABILITY
    8  FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH OR PROPERTY DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE CRIME
    9  VICTIM  WHILE  UPON  SUCH  PREMISES IN THE COURSE OF SEEKING ASSISTANCE,
   10  UNLESS IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT SUCH INJURY OR DEATH WAS CAUSED  BY  GROSS
   11  NEGLIGENCE  ON THE PART OF SUCH BUSINESS ENTITY OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPO-
   12  RATION.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07334-01-5