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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3201
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, AVELLA, BAILEY, LATIMER, SANDERS, SAVINO,
STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and
Recreation
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, provided that the commissioner of parks, recreation
13 and historic preservation shall promulgate any rules and regulations
14 necessary for the timely implementation of this act on its effective
15 date on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07987-01-7
