What's happening
This bill requires all skiers in New York to wear protective helmets, mandates ski areas to provide helmets, and sets penalties for noncompliance.
Why it matters
Shifts responsibility onto ski area operators. by requiring them to actively prevent anyone from entering ski areas without a helmet, fundamentally changing their liability and enforcement duties.
Creates a new cost and logistical obligation for ski areas. to stock, sell, or lease helmets to the public, potentially impacting business operations and expenses, especially for smaller or rural ski facilities.
Establishes a clear legal penalty structure. for operators who fail to comply, including escalating fines and possible suspension of their operating license, signaling the state’s intent to enforce these rules aggressively.
Expands educational requirements. for ski areas to provide literature and information about injury prevention, which could increase public awareness but also adds compliance tasks for businesses.
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Require Helmets for Skiers
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- Referred to judiciary
- Referred to judiciary
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3772
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, JAFFEE, WEPRIN, LAVINE, COOK, GOTTFRIED, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the general obligations law and the labor law, in relation to the duties of skiers and ski area operators and penalties for violation thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 18-103 of the general obligations law is amended by adding two new subdivisions 15 and 16 to read as follows:
15. To ensure that skiers are not permitted to enter the ski area without a protective helmet.
16. To make available to the public, for sale or lease, protective helmets.
§ 2. Section 18-105 of the general obligations law is amended by adding a new subdivision 12-a to read as follows:
12-a. To wear a protective helmet while in the ski area;
§ 3. Paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section 18-106 of the general obligations law, as added by chapter 711 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
c. To make available at reasonable fees, as required by subdivision thirteen of section 18-103 of this article, instruction and education for skiers relative to the risks inherent in the sport and the duties prescribed for skiers by this article, educational literature regarding injury prevention and to conspicuously post notice of the times and places of availability of such instruction and education in locations where it is likely to be seen by skiers; and
§ 4. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 867-a to read as follows:
§ 867-a. Penalties. If the commissioner finds that a ski area operator has knowingly violated the provisions of subdivision fifteen or sixteen of section 18-103 of the general obligations law, the commissioner shall
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impose a fine of one hundred dollars for the first such violation, two hundred dollars for a second violation, and for any subsequent violation, the commissioner may, in his or her discretion, after a hearing thereon, suspend the license of such ski area operator for a period of three days.
§ 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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