Relates to annual vehicular access for active duty service members; requires annual passes be issued to active duty service members and their immediate families at state parks or recreational facilities upon presentation of a military identification card.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3747
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GRAY, SLATER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
relation to annual vehicular access for active duty service members
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The parks, recreation and historic preservation law is
2 amended by adding a new section 13.22 to read as follows:
3 § 13.22 Annual vehicular access for active duty service members. 1.
4 Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the
5 office or other state agency having jurisdiction of a state park or
6 recreational facility which has the authority to issue an annual pass
7 for vehicular access pursuant to this article shall issue such annual
8 pass for vehicular access without charge to an active duty service
9 member and such service member's immediate family at any state park or
10 recreational facility upon presentation of such active duty service
11 member's military identification card.
12 2. For the purposes of this section, "active duty service member"
13 shall mean a resident of the state who is an active member of the organ-
14 ized militia of the state of New York as defined by section one of the
15 military law.
16 3. The office or other state agency having jurisdiction shall promul-
17 gate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the
18 provisions of this section.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
20 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amend-
21 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
22 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
23 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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