Redefines "campground" for the purposes of the Adirondack park and regulation by the Adirondack park agency; defines such term as a parcel of land with 5 or more campsites, including buildings and accessory structures; provides that recreational vehicles may be kept at a campground or campsite, with the consent of the owner of the campground, during periods of time when they are not in use, so long as they are not used in a manner which violates the campground permit.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 322 A. 447
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. SAYWARD -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the definition of a
campground within the Adirondack park
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 802 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 348 of the laws of 1973, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 10. "Campground" means [any area designed for transient occupancy by
5 camping in tents, camp trailers, travel trailers, motor homes or similar
6 facility designed for temporary shelter] a tract or parcel of land,
7 including principal buildings and accessory structures, where five or
8 more campsites are made available for temporary or seasonal overnight
9 occupancy. Nothing in this article shall require the removal of a recre-
10 ational vehicle that remains on a campground or a campsite in such camp-
11 ground, with the consent of the owner of the campground during those
12 periods of time that it is not occupied, provided that it is not used in
13 a manner that violates the terms and conditions of the permit issued to
14 the campground by the state or a county department of health.
15 § 2. Section 802 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
16 subdivision 55-a to read as follows:
17 55-a. "Recreational vehicle" means a vehicular camping unit primarily
18 designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel
19 or seasonal use that has its own motive power or is mounted on or towed
20 by another vehicle.
21 § 3. 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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