Bill Text: NY A00753 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows veterans with a service-connected disability or Purple Heart free use of parks and campsites; provides that such disability shall be 10 percent service-connected or greater.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to veterans' affairs [A00753 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00753-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           753
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 10, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ASHBY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation  to  allowing veterans with a service-connected disability or
          Purple Heart free use of parks and campsites
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 13.19 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
     2  vation law, as amended by chapter 649 of the laws of 1977, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    §  13.19  Free  use  of  parks  and  campsites.    Notwithstanding the
     5  provisions of any other law, any person who is blind, non-ambulatory, or
     6  an amputee or any veteran of the wars of the United States, who  has  at
     7  any time been awarded by the federal government an allowance towards the
     8  purchase  of  an  automobile  or  is  eligible for such an award, or any
     9  veteran of the wars of the United States with a ten percent  or  greater
    10  service-connected disability as certified by the United States veterans'
    11  administration,  or any recipient of the Purple Heart shall be permitted
    12  to use any of the public campsites, parks and  other  public  places  of
    13  recreation in this state, upon the same terms and conditions as apply to
    14  the general public, but without the payment of any fees or other charges
    15  for  the  use of such campsites, parks and other public places of recre-
    16  ation.
    17    § 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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