S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2221
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 15, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. MANKTELOW, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, GALLAHAN, SMULLEN
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to noncommer-
cial aviation
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,
horseback riding, bicycle riding, hang gliding, motorized vehicle opera-
tion for recreational purposes, snowmobile operation, cutting or gather-
ing of wood for non-commercial purposes or training of dogs, NONCOMMER-
CIAL AVIATION, or to give warning of any hazardous condition or use of
or structure 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.
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