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                                   5641
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 20, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FRIEND,  J. M. GIGLIO, MANKTELOW, MORINELLO,
   HAWLEY, BRABENEC, MILLER, TAGUE, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
   of A. BLANKENBUSH, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
   tee 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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 was granted for a consideration other than that provided for in  section
 11-0925 of the environmental conservation law; or
   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.