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Immunity for Land Owners Allowing Use of Land by Snowmobilers

Plaintiff’s decedent was killed while riding a snowmobile on a trail on privately owned land.  Plaintiff’s snowmobile struck the side of a tractor-trailer carrying logs.  The private logging road where the accident occurred was also used as a snowmobile trail.  Plaintiff sued the owner of the land.  The Third Department upheld the trial court’s ruling that the landowner was immune from suit under General Obligations Law 9-103, because the statutory “consideration exception” did not apply.  Plaintiff contended that certain “recreational leases” (for hunting and fishing) constituted “consideration” for the use of the trail, triggering the immunity exception.    The Third Department determined those leases had nothing to do with snowmobiling and noted:

General Obligations Law § 9-103 provides immunity, subject to certain exceptions, to landowners, lessees and occupiers who make their land available to the public for various enumerated recreational  activities, including  snowmobiling. As relevant here, the consideration exception provides that immunity does not exist “for injury suffered in any case where permission . . . was granted  for a  consideration, other  than  the  consideration, if any, paid to said landowner by the state or federal government” (General Obligations Law § 9–103 [2] [b]). It is the plaintiff who has the burden of establishing that the  claimed exception applies and, as the Court of Appeals has instructed, we must strictly construe the exception so as not to defeat the statute’s broad purpose … .  Ferland … v GMO Renewable Resources LLC, et al, 514045, 3rd Dept 4-11-13

 

 

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