STATE OF NEW YORK
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2578
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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 noncommer-
cial aviation
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 to keep the premises safe for entry or use by others for hunt-
7 ing, fishing, organized gleaning as defined in section seventy-one-y of
8 the agriculture and markets law, canoeing, boating, trapping, hiking,
9 cross-country skiing, tobogganing, sledding, speleological activities,
10 horseback riding, bicycle riding, hang gliding, motorized vehicle opera-
11 tion for recreational purposes, snowmobile operation, cutting or gather-
12 ing of wood for non-commercial purposes or training of dogs, noncommer-
13 cial aviation, or to give warning of any hazardous condition or use of
14 or structure or activity on such premises to persons entering for such
15 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.
LBD04497-01-1