| Re: logistics associated with starting a new riding group?
Prisoner at War wrote:
> On Feb 6, 5:57 pm, Bill Baka <b...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Prisoner at War wrote:
>>> Legal issues are probably the biggest consideration. Like, what if
>>> someone gets hurt and so forth. You may not be an official club, but
>>> I'd worry about any laws, local or otherwise, which may beg to differ
>>> with you on that! I know it sounds ridiculous, but...maybe it's
>>> 'cause I'm in New York, with half the world's lawyers here....
>> Don't draft any paperwork that calls you a "club". Then you are just a
>> group of cyclists that happen to be riding together.
>> That should make you lawyer-proof.
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> I'm not sure about that. For example, look at so-called "common law
> marriages"...there's no paperwork saying "husband and wife" but if
> they split the guy's still liable to pay child-support for her kids
> that she already had previous to their relationship!
>
>> Having each other's phone numbers and informally riding together doesn't
>> make a club. You could have a separate '5s' for cycling activities. The
>> '5s' is for cell phones as seen on television (over and over).
>
> Dude, this is liberal NYC, and the City wants bicyclists numbering
> more than twenty (or whatever the exact number is) to apply for a
> parade permit first. Wedding and funeral processions in cars are all
> right, but bicyclists they want to crack down on....
I'm not sure that isn't an apples and oranges comparison.
>
> I'm just saying, you never know...sometimes the law thinks in the "if
> it looks like duck and walks like a duck" frame-of-mind...if folks
> meeting regularly to ride can look to a casual observer to be a bike
> club, the law may decide that for all practical intents and purposes
> they are! I hope not, of course, but you hear about crazy lawyer-****
> in the news all the time....
AAARRGGGHH. If that is any reflection of how the mayor runs things I
sure don't want him dropping his hat in the "Run for president" ring.
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>> Bill Baka, again.
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