STATE OF NEW YORK
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196
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1392 of the public health law, as
2 added by chapter 515 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of a tract of
4 land and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be
5 pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied on a scheduled
6 basis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year
7 by children under sixteen years of age under general supervision,
8 [primarily] for the purpose of [outdoor] organized group activities, for
9 a period of less than twenty-four hours on any day the property is so
10 occupied, and on which no provisions are made for overnight occupancy by
11 such children. The commissioner shall have the power to except by rule
12 from this article and the sanitary code a place, facility or activity
13 that is not within the intent of this definition.
14 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 1393 of the public health law, as added
15 by chapter 515 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
16 4. The fee for a permit shall be [one] two hundred dollars, except
17 that no fee shall be charged in the case of a children's overnight,
18 summer day or traveling summer day camp operated by a person, firm,
19 corporation or association for charitable, philanthropic or religious
20 purposes.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2011.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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