Bill Text: NY S00655 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides free use of state parks and campsites for volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION [S00655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00655-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           655

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation to providing free use of state parks for volunteer firefight-
          ers and volunteer ambulance personnel

          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  person  who  is  a  resident  of  New York state and serves as an active
    10  volunteer firefighter, as defined in section two hundred fifteen of  the
    11  general municipal law, or as an enrolled member of a volunteer ambulance
    12  service  pursuant  to  article  thirty of the public health law shall be
    13  permitted to use any of the public campsites,  parks  and  other  public
    14  places  of  recreation in this state, upon the same terms and conditions
    15  as apply to the general public, but without the payment of any  fees  or
    16  other  charges  for  the  use  of such campsites, parks and other public
    17  places of recreation.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    20  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    21  tation  of  this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to
    22  be made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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