STATE OF NEW YORK
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5353
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 22, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- (at request of the Office of Parks, Recre-
ation and Historic Preservation) -- 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 limiting
liability for lands used for rock climbing
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 rock climbing, horseback riding, bicycle riding, hang gliding, motorized
11 vehicle operation for recreational purposes, snowmobile operation,
12 cutting or gathering of wood for non-commercial purposes or training of
13 dogs, or to give warning of any hazardous condition or use of or struc-
14 ture or activity on such premises to persons entering for such purposes;
15 § 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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