Assembly Bill A4060

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires propeller guards on all vessels

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A4060 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §40, Nav L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10265
2023-2024: A5596

2025-A4060 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires propeller guards on all vessels.

2025-A4060 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4060
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the navigation law, in relation to requiring propeller
   guards on all vessels
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 10, 11, 12 and 13 of section 40 of the naviga-
 tion  law,  subdivision  11  as renumbered by chapter 391 of the laws of
 1971, are renumbered subdivisions 11, 12, 13 and 14 and a  new  subdivi-
 sion 10 is added to read as follows:
   10.  PROPELLER GUARD.   EVERY MECHANICALLY PROPELLED VESSEL SHALL HAVE
 AROUND EACH OF ITS PROPELLERS A PROPELLER GUARD.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF
 THIS  SUBDIVISION,  A  "PROPELLER GUARD" SHALL BE A DEVICE WHICH ENCASES
 THE PROPELLER OF A VESSEL TO PREVENT THE  PROPELLER  FROM  INADVERTENTLY
 COMING INTO CONTACT WITH A PERSON WHO COMES TOO CLOSE TO THE PROPELLER.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06290-01-5

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