Relates to the liability of landowners who permit recreational uses of their land; establishes landowners owe no duty to keep premises safe for entry, passage over premises or other recreational uses or to give warning of any hazardous condition or use of or structure or activity on such premises to persons entering for such purposes.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 the liabil-
ity of landowners who permit recreational uses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 9-103 of the gener-
2 al obligations law, as separately amended by chapters 141 and 286 of the
3 laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. an owner, lessee or occupant of premises, whether or not posted as
5 provided in section 11-2111 of the environmental conservation law, owes
6 no duty: (1) to keep the premises safe for entry, passage over premises
7 or use by others for hunting, fishing, organized gleaning as defined in
8 section seventy-one-y of the agriculture and markets law, canoeing,
9 boating, trapping, hiking, cross-country skiing, tobogganing, sledding,
10 speleological activities, horseback riding, bicycle riding, hang glid-
11 ing, motorized vehicle operation for recreational purposes, snowmobile
12 operation, cutting or gathering of wood for non-commercial purposes
13 [or], training of dogs, and any other recreational use; or (2) to give
14 warning of any hazardous condition or use of or structure or activity on
15 such premises to persons entering for such purposes;
16 § 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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