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Assembly Bill A7204

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides no exception may be granted to a summer day camp which is dedicated to a single activity if that activity meets the criteria of a nonpassive recreational activity with significant risk of injury

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2011-A7204 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1392, Pub Health L

2011-A7204 - Summary

Provides that no exception for public health laws or sanitary code provisions may be granted to a summer day camp, by the commissioner of health, which is dedicated to a single activity if that activity meets the criteria of a nonpassive recreational activity with significant risk of injury.

2011-A7204 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7204

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 15, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to single-purpose 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
amended  by  chapter  439  of  the  laws  of 2009, 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, for
the purpose of ANY indoor or outdoor organized group activities, involv-
ing ONE OR MORE nonpassive recreational activities with significant risk
of injury, as such activities are defined by the department in rules and
regulations, 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 over-
night 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,
PROVIDED  THAT NO EXCEPTION MAY BE GRANTED TO A SUMMER DAY CAMP WHICH IS
DEDICATED TO A SINGLE ACTIVITY IF THAT ACTIVITY MEETS THE CRITERIA OF  A
NONPASSIVE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY WITH SIGNIFICANT RISK OF INJURY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2012.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10749-01-1

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2011-A7204A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1392, Pub Health L

2011-A7204A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that no exception for public health laws or sanitary code provisions may be granted to a summer day camp, by the commissioner of health, which is dedicated to a single activity if that activity meets the criteria of a nonpassive recreational activity with significant risk of injury.

2011-A7204A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 7204--A

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 15, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, ROSENTHAL, P. RIVERA, MILLMAN, ROBINSON,
  SCHIMEL, JAFFEE, HOOPER --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  COOK,
  GUNTHER,  RAIA,  SCARBOROUGH,  WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on  Health  in
  accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
  amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
  tee

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to single-purpose 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
amended  by  chapter  439  of  the  laws  of 2009, 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, for
the purpose of ANY indoor or outdoor organized group activities, involv-
ing ONE OR MORE nonpassive recreational activities with significant risk
of injury, as such activities are defined by the department in rules and
regulations, 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 over-
night 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,
PROVIDED  THAT NO EXCEPTION MAY BE GRANTED TO A SUMMER DAY CAMP WHICH IS
DEDICATED TO A SINGLE ACTIVITY IF THAT ACTIVITY MEETS THE CRITERIA OF  A
NONPASSIVE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY WITH SIGNIFICANT RISK OF INJURY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2013.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10749-03-2

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