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                                   5171
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. FRIEND, CROUCH, MONTESANO, GRAF, GIGLIO, LUPINAC-
   CI  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LOPEZ, McDONOUGH, McLAUGHLIN --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to the duty  to
   keep premises safe for certain uses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 9-103 of the gener-
 al obligations law, as separately amended by chapters 141 and 286 of the
 laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   a. an owner, lessee or occupant of premises, whether or not posted  as
 provided  in section 11-2111 of the environmental conservation law, owes
 no duty to keep the premises safe for entry or use by others  for  hunt-
 ing,  fishing, organized gleaning as defined in section seventy-one-y of
 the agriculture and markets law, canoeing,  boating,  trapping,  hiking,
 cross-country  skiing,  tobogganing, sledding, speleological activities,
 horseback riding, bicycle riding, hang gliding, motorized vehicle opera-
 tion for recreational purposes, snowmobile operation, cutting or gather-
 ing of wood for non-commercial purposes [or], training of dogs OR  OTHER
 RECREATIONAL  ACTIVITIES,  or to give warning of any hazardous condition
 or use of or structure or activity on such premises to persons  entering
 for such purposes;
   §  2.  Paragraphs  b  and  c  of subdivision 2 of section 9-103 of the
 general obligations law, as amended by chapter 408 of the laws of  1979,
 are amended to read as follows:
   b.  for  injury suffered in any case where permission to pursue any of
 the activities [enumerated] DESCRIBED in this section was granted for  a
 consideration  other  than the consideration, if any, paid to said land-
 owner by the state or federal government, or permission  to  train  dogs
 was  granted for a consideration other than that provided for in section
 11-0925 of the environmental conservation law; or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   c. for injury caused, by acts of persons to whom permission to  pursue
 any  of the activities [enumerated] DESCRIBED in this section was grant-
 ed, to other persons as to whom the person granting permission,  or  the
 owner, lessee or occupant of the premises, owed a duty to keep the prem-
 ises safe or to warn of danger.
   § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.