Assembly Bill A2221

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to noncommercial aviation

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A2221 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3081
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
General Obligations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §9-103, Gen Ob L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A5381, S2578
2023-2024: A3600, S2287

2025-A2221 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that there is no duty to keep premises safe for persons engaging in noncommercial aviation.

2025-A2221 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2221
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. MANKTELOW, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, GALLAHAN, SMULLEN
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the general obligations law, in relation to noncommer-
   cial aviation
 
   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, NONCOMMER-
 CIAL AVIATION, 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. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01831-01-5



              

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