Senate Bill S5353

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to limiting liability for lands used for rock climbing

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S5353 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
General Obligations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §9-103, Gen Ob L

2017-S5353 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to limiting liability for lands used for rock climbing.

2017-S5353 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5353 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5353
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 22, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. FUNKE -- (at request of the Office of Parks, Recre-
   ation and Historic Preservation) -- 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 limiting
   liability for lands used for rock climbing

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 9-103 of the gener-
 al obligations law, as separately amended by chapters 141 and 286 of the
 laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  an owner, lessee or occupant of premises, whether or not posted as
 provided in section 11-2111 of the environmental conservation law,  owes
 no  duty  to keep the premises safe for entry or use by others for hunt-
 ing, fishing, organized gleaning as defined in section seventy-one-y  of
 the  agriculture  and  markets law, canoeing, boating, trapping, hiking,
 cross-country skiing, tobogganing, sledding,  speleological  activities,
 ROCK CLIMBING, horseback riding, bicycle riding, hang gliding, motorized
 vehicle  operation  for  recreational  purposes,  snowmobile  operation,
 cutting or gathering of wood for non-commercial purposes or training  of
 dogs,  or to give warning of any hazardous condition or use of or struc-
 ture or activity on such premises to persons entering for such purposes;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10163-01-7



              

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