Bill Text: NY A00196 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition of "summer day camp" and the fee that an officer may impose for issuing a permit to the operators of children's overnight, summer day, or traveling summer day camps

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to health [A00196 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A00196-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          196
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LATIMER,  N. RIVERA, P. RIVERA, BENEDETTO --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M.   of A. DINOWITZ,  GREENE,  MARKEY,  MILLMAN,
         PHEFFER,  J. RIVERA,  TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition  of
         "summer day camp" and the fee that an officer may impose for issuing a
         permit  to the operators of children's overnight, summer day, or trav-
         eling summer day camps
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 1392 of the public health law, as
    2  added by chapter 515 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    3    2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of  a  tract  of
    4  land  and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be
    5  pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied on  a  scheduled
    6  basis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year
    7  by  children  under  sixteen  years  of  age  under general supervision,
    8  [primarily] for the purpose of [outdoor] organized group activities, for
    9  a period of less than twenty-four hours on any day the  property  is  so
   10  occupied, and on which no provisions are made for overnight occupancy by
   11  such  children.  The commissioner shall have the power to except by rule
   12  from this article and the sanitary code a place,  facility  or  activity
   13  that is not within the intent of this definition.
   14    S  2. Subdivision 4 of section 1393 of the public health law, as added
   15  by chapter 515 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
   16    4. The fee for a permit shall be [one]  TWO  hundred  dollars,  except
   17  that  no  fee  shall  be  charged in the case of a children's overnight,
   18  summer day or traveling summer day camp  operated  by  a  person,  firm,
   19  corporation  or  association  for charitable, philanthropic or religious
   20  purposes.
   21    S 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2011.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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