Provides senior citizens shall be entitled to use any park, recreational facility or historic site without the imposition of any fee or other charge; defines senior citizens as persons 65 years of age or older.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5450
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 16, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- 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 waiver of certain fees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 13.15 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
2 vation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as
3 follows:
4 3-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
5 senior citizens shall be entitled to use any park, recreational facility
6 or historic site under the jurisdiction of the office upon the same
7 terms and conditions as apply to the general public, but without the
8 payment of any fee or other charge for such use. For purposes of this
9 subdivision the term "senior citizens" shall mean persons sixty-five
10 years of age or older.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
13 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
14 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or before
15 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03238-02-1
