Assembly Bill A11232

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to personal watercraft and certain safety provisions that require their use

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A11232 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8086
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1341, Pub Health L; amd §2, Nav L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A1410, S1457

2009-A11232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows personal watercraft to be used as an alternative to a surfboat.

2009-A11232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  11232

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 25, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to personal water-
  craft and certain safety provisions that require  their  use;  and  to
  amend  the navigation law, in relation to making technical corrections
  thereto

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  2 of section 1341 of the
public health law is amended to read as follows:
  (a) Every person maintaining any such bathing establishment shall also
keep and provide in connection therewith, for the  facilitating  of  the
rescue of persons in danger of drowning, a surfboat OR A PERSONAL WATER-
CRAFT  AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION THIRTY OF SECTION TWO OF THE NAVIGATION
LAW. A SURFBOAT SHALL BE not less than sixteen feet long, on  each  side
of  which  there  shall be hanging ropes arranged so that persons in the
water can easily catch hold of same, or be supported thereby. Such boats
shall be equipped with two or more sets of oars and life-lines and life-
belts, and at least one ring buoy or life preserver,  with  quarter-inch
cotton  line,  not  less than five hundred feet in length, with suitable
reel attached thereto. In addition thereto, there shall be  anchored  on
the  shore,  a  suitable reel with a half-inch cotton line not less than
five hundred feet in length, with a life-belt attached thereto, kept  in
good order and proper condition, so that it can readily be used by those
assisting in saving life.
  S  2.  Subdivision  30 of section 2 of the navigation law, as added by
chapter 830 of the laws of 1990, is renumbered subdivision 30-a.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17170-02-0

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