Prohibits the operation of all-terrain vehicles on school grounds, and baseball, football and soccer fields, without the permission of the owner thereof, provided that the owner or lessee has erected "No Trespassing" signs thereon.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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665
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the opera-
tion of an all-terrain vehicle on school grounds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2403 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 3-b to read as follows:
3 3-b. School grounds. (a) No person shall operate an ATV on school
4 grounds, or on any baseball, football or soccer field without the
5 consent of the owner or lessee thereof, where such owner or lessee has
6 erected or maintained any sign, structure, display or device prohibiting
7 the trespass thereon, and which shall include a sign stating: "No Tres-
8 passing". A violation of this subdivision shall be a traffic infraction
9 and shall upon a conviction of a first violation be punishable by a fine
10 of not more than two hundred fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not
11 more than fifteen days or by both such fine and imprisonment; and upon a
12 conviction of a second violation, both of which were committed within a
13 period of eighteen months, shall be punishable by a fine of not more
14 than four hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than forty-
15 five days or by both such fine and imprisonment; and upon a conviction
16 of a third or subsequent violation, all of which were committed within a
17 period of eighteen months, shall be punishable by a fine of not more
18 than five hundred fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than
19 ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
20 (b) For the purposes of this subdivision, "school grounds" shall mean
21 any athletic playing field, playground or land contained within the real
22 property boundary line of a public or private elementary, secondary or
23 vocational school.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
25 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05415-01-9
