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Assembly Bill A196

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Defines summer day camp and provides for permit fees of $200 except in the case of a summer day camp

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2009-A196 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง1392 & 1393, Pub Health L

2009-A196 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines summer day camp and provides for permit fees of $200 except in the case of a summer day camp.

2009-A196 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   196

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LATIMER,  N. RIVERA, P. RIVERA, BENEDETTO --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M.   of A. DINOWITZ,  GREENE,  MARKEY,  MILLMAN,
  PHEFFER,  J. RIVERA,  TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition  of
  "summer day camp" and the fee that an officer may impose for issuing a
  permit  to the operators of children's overnight, summer day, or trav-
  eling summer day camps

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 1392 of the public health law, as
added by chapter 515 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of  a  tract  of
land  and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be
pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied on  a  scheduled
basis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year
by  children  under  sixteen  years  of  age  under general supervision,
[primarily] for the purpose of [outdoor] organized group activities, for
a period of less than twenty-four hours on any day the  property  is  so
occupied, and on which no provisions are made for overnight occupancy by
such  children.  The commissioner shall have the power to except by rule
from this article and the sanitary code a place,  facility  or  activity
that is not within the intent of this definition.
  S  2. Subdivision 4 of section 1393 of the public health law, as added
by chapter 515 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  4. The fee for a permit shall be [one]  TWO  hundred  dollars,  except
that  no  fee  shall  be  charged in the case of a children's overnight,
summer day or traveling summer day camp  operated  by  a  person,  firm,
corporation  or  association  for charitable, philanthropic or religious
purposes.
  S 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2011.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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