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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER,  COOK,  GOODELL,  FRIEND, BRABENEC,
   LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to the  liabil-
   ity of landowners who permit recreational 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: (1) to keep the premises safe for entry, PASSAGE OVER  PREMISES
 or  use by others for hunting, 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  glid-
 ing,  motorized  vehicle operation for recreational purposes, snowmobile
 operation, cutting or gathering  of  wood  for  non-commercial  purposes
 [or],  training  of dogs, AND ANY OTHER RECREATIONAL USE; or (2) to give
 warning of any hazardous condition or use of or structure or activity on
 such premises to persons entering for such purposes;
   § 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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