STATE OF NEW YORK
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4513
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 8, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- 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 providing
that there shall be no duty to keep premises safe for entry or use by
others for recreational aviation activities
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, recreational aviation activities, snow-
12 mobile operation, cutting or gathering of wood for non-commercial
13 purposes or training of dogs, or to give warning of any hazardous condi-
14 tion or use of or structure or activity on such premises to persons
15 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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